Reverse engineering with NetBeans
The New Entity Classes from Database wizard is one of the most helpful and time-saving wizards in NetBeans. It generates a set of entity classes from an existing database connection, extracting and annotating all the fields and defining relationships between the classes. To access the wizard, navigate to File | New File. This will open the New File window, where you can then select the Persistence category followed by the Entity Classes From Database file type:
Click on Next to display the Database Tables screen where you can create a New Data Source:
This will allow you to enter the JNDI Name and to select the
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