Open the Netbeans software and open the Java project you want to use to connect to the database. When you open a project, a list of files and folders display in the left navigation panel.

This version of NetBeans has enhanced support for two-tier Web application development. Java 5.0 includes a number of enhancements, including new debugging hooks.

The NetBeans IDE provides JUnit integration that can be very handy when writing and running JUnit -based unit tests .

This TOTD ( T ip O f T he D ay) shows how to create a Persistence Unit (PU) for a MySQL database using NetBeans IDE. This PU can then be used in any of Java EE artifacts (JSP, Servlet, EJB ...

The days of J2EE are behind us and—as of March 15, 2011—the Java EE 7 specification has full JSR support. That makes it about time to see just how far the Java specification and the tools that support ...