Mastering NetBeans

David Salter

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781785282645
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming in JavaScript
• Index: Computer Science

Master building complex applications with NetBeans to become more proficient programmers

About This Book

• Customize NetBeans to fit your unique needs
• Excel in NetBeans IDE, learning the shortcuts and hidden features to become more productive
• A comprehensive guide to become more productive at application development using NetBeans IDE

Who This Book Is For

If you are a competent developer who wants to fast-track your application development with NetBeans IDE, then this book is for you. Reasonable knowledge and an understanding of Java programming and NetBeans IDE is assumed.

What You Will Learn

• Install NetBeans either from a distribution package or from source code
• Test, debug, and run production code using the NetBeans IDE
• Use external services such as PaaS environments and web services
• Create desktop applications using Swing tools
• Manage and configure relational databases
• Build a Java business model and web tiers using Java EE and Spring technologies
• Explore web services both with XML and RESTful approaches
• Handle external services such as databases, Maven repositories, and cloud providers
• Extend NetBeans for those situations where you require more from your IDE

In Detail

With the increasing complexity of software development and the abundance of tools available, learning your IDE in-depth will instantly increase your developer productivity. NetBeans is the only IDE that can be downloaded with Java itself and provides you with many cutting edge features not readily available with many IDEs. The IDE also provides a great set of tools for PHP and C/C++ developers. It is free and open source and has a large community of users and developers around the world.

This book will teach you to ace NetBeans IDE and make use of it in creating Java business and web services. It will help you to become a proficient developer and use NetBeans for software development. You will learn effective third-party interaction and enable yourself for productive database development.

Moving on, you will see how to create EJB projects and write effective and efficient web applications. Then you will learn how to use Swing and manage and configure a relational database. By the end of the book, you will be able to handle external services such as databases, Maven repositories, and cloud providers, and extend your NetBeans when you require more from your IDE.

Style and approach

An easy-to-follow yet comprehensive guide to help you master the exhaustive range of NetBeans features in order to become more efficient at Java programing. More advanced topics are covered in each chapter, with subjects grouped according to their complexity as well as their utility.

Mastering NetBeans

---

Table of Contents

Mastering NetBeans

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

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with NetBeans

Choosing a download bundle of NetBeans

Downloading and installing NetBeans

Installing other versions of NetBeans

NetBeans user directory

Updating NetBeans to the latest version

Obtaining the NetBeans source code

Downloading a zipped archive of the NetBeans source code

Cloning the NetBeans source code from Mercurial

Cloning specific versions of NetBeans

Cloning the NetBeans source code from within NetBeans

Browsing the NetBeans source code online

Building NetBeans

Building NetBeans via the command line

Building NetBeans from within NetBeans

NetBeans configuration

User and cache directories

NetBeans default options

NetBeans JDK

Additional module clusters

Further options

Summary

2. Editing Files and Projects

The NetBeans screen layout

The explorer style windows

The Favorites window

The Navigator window

The source code editor window

The History view

The Palette window

The Properties window

The Output window

Window management

Specifying default templates for files

Code templates and code snippets

Inserting code using code templates

Code snippets – the NetBeans Palette window

Deleting palette items – the Palette Manager

Editing palette items

Macro recording and playback

Assigning shortcuts for macro playback

Recording new macros

Splitting windows

Code folds

Project groups

Summary

3. The NetBeans Developer's Life Cycle

Running applications

Debugging applications

Breakpoints

The Variables debug window

The Watches window

Evaluating expressions

The Call Stack window

The Loaded Classes window

The Sessions window

The Threads window

The Sources window

The Debugging window

Deadlock detection

Analyze Stack Window

Variable formatters

Debugging remote applications

Profiling applications

Application monitoring

Performance monitoring

Memory monitoring

Testing applications

Code coverage

Performing TDD within NetBeans

Summary

4. Managing Services

Databases

Connecting to Java DB

Connecting to MySQL

Connecting to other databases via JDBC

Managing databases

Web Services

Application Servers

Maven Repositories

Cloud services

Hudson Builders

Task Repositories

Summary

5. Database Persistence

Java EE Persistence

JPA entities

Creating blank entity classes

Editing the persistence.xml file

Creating entity classes from databases

Creating JPA controllers for entities

Creating database scripts from entity classes

Summary

6. Desktop Development

Java Swing applications

Creating Swing frames

Designing Swing forms

Anchoring and autoresizing components

Defining properties and events

Editing properties

Editing bindings

Advanced binding properties

Converters

Validators

Editing events

Editing code

Creating connections

JavaFX applications

JavaFX Scene Builder

Summary

7. Creating the Business Layer

Creating enterprise projects

Creating a NetBeans multi-module project

A Maven multi-module project

Creating a Maven multi-module project

Creating EJBs

Creating a session bean façade for entity classes

The Java Bean Validation framework

Creating a Bean Validation constraint

Contexts and Dependency Injection

Adding CDI support

CDI injection points editor support

Summary

8. Creating the Web Tier

Creating web projects

Configuring application servers

Creating a web application

Creating a NetBeans web application

Modifying a NetBeans web application

Creating a Maven web application

The web project's Run options

Adding components to a web application

Creating Spring web applications

Changing the version of Spring used

Spring application development shortcuts

Modern Spring development

Enhancing Spring Boot support

CSS preprocessors

Configuring Less and SASS in NetBeans

Configuring Less and Sass on a project basis

Creating CSS rules

Adding JavaScript to a web application

Checking JavaScript files

Summary

9. Creating and Consuming Web Services

Creating web services

Creating a SOAP web service

Creating a SOAP web service from scratch

Creating a SOAP web service from WSDL

Managing SOAP-based web services

Testing web services

Message handlers

Managing web services graphically

Consuming SOAP web services

Creating RESTful web services

The Simple Root Resource option

The Container-Item option

The Client-Controlled Container-Item option

Summary

10. Extending NetBeans

Creating NetBeans plugins

NetBeans rich client platform applications

Creating a NetBeans RCP application

Branding the application

Application properties

Creating platform application components

Creating a NetBeans window

Summary

Index

Mastering NetBeans

Copyright © 2015 Packt Publishing

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

Every effort has been made ...

Table of contents

• Mastering NetBeans