Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8 -- Table of Contents -- Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8 -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with NetBeans -- Introduction -- Obtaining NetBeans -- Installing NetBeans -- Microsoft Windows -- Mac OS X -- Linux -- Other platforms -- Installation procedure -- Starting NetBeans for the first time -- Configuring NetBeans for Java EE development -- Integrating NetBeans with a third-party application server -- Integrating NetBeans with a third-party RDBMS -- Adding a JDBC driver to NetBeans -- Connecting to a third-party RDBMS -- Deploying our first application -- NetBeans tips for effective development -- Code completion -- Code templates -- Keyboard shortcuts -- Understanding NetBeans visual cues -- Accelerated HTML5 development support -- Summary -- 2. Developing Web Applications Using JavaServer Faces 2.2 -- Introduction to JavaServer Faces -- Developing our first JSF application -- Creating a new JSF project -- Modifying our page to capture user data -- Creating our CDI named bean -- Implementing the confirmation page -- Executing our application -- JSF validation -- Facelets templating -- Adding the Facelets template -- Using the template -- Resource library contracts -- Composite components -- Faces flows -- HTML5 support -- HTML5-friendly markup -- Pass-through attributes -- Summary -- 3. JSF Component Libraries -- Using PrimeFaces components in our JSF applications -- Using ICEfaces components in our JSF applications.

Using RichFaces components in our JSF applications -- Summary -- 4. Interacting with Databases through the Java Persistence API -- Creating our first JPA entity -- Adding persistent fields to our entity -- Creating a data access object -- Automated generation of JPA entities -- Named queries and JPQL -- Bean Validation -- Entity relationships -- Generating JSF applications from JPA entities -- Summary -- 5. Implementing the Business Tier with Session Beans -- Introducing session beans -- Creating a session bean in NetBeans -- Accessing the bean from a client -- Executing the client -- Session bean transaction management -- Implementing aspect-oriented programming with interceptors -- Implementing the Interceptor class -- Decorating the EJB with the @Interceptors annotations -- The EJB Timer service -- Generating session beans from JPA entities -- Summary -- 6. Contexts and Dependency Injection -- Introduction to CDI -- Qualifiers -- Stereotypes -- Interceptor binding types -- Custom scopes -- Summary -- 7. Messaging with JMS and Message-driven Beans -- Introduction to JMS -- Creating JMS resources from NetBeans -- Implementing a JMS message producer -- Consuming JMS messages with message-driven beans -- Seeing our messaging application in action -- Summary -- 8. Java API for JSON Processing -- The JSON-P object model API -- Generating JSON data with the JSON-P object model API -- Our example in action -- Parsing JSON data with the JSON-P object model API -- The JSON-P streaming API -- Generating JSON data with the JSON-P streaming API -- Parsing JSON data with the JSON-P streaming API -- Summary -- 9. Java API for WebSocket -- Examining the WebSocket code using samples included with NetBeans -- The sample Echo application in action -- Examining the generated Java code -- Examining the generated JavaScript code.

Building our own WebSocket applications -- Developing the user interface -- Developing the WebSocket server endpoint -- Implementing WebSocket functionality on the client -- Summary -- 10. RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS -- Generating a RESTful web service from an existing database -- Analyzing the generated code -- Testing our RESTful web service -- Generating RESTful Java client code -- Generating RESTful JavaScript clients for our RESTful web services -- Summary -- 11. SOAP Web Services with JAX-WS -- Introduction to web services -- Creating a simple web service -- Testing our web service -- Developing a client for our web service -- Exposing EJBs as web services -- Implementing new web services as EJBs -- Exposing existing EJBs as web services -- Creating a web service from an existing WSDL -- Summary -- Index.