Configuring NetBeans for Java EE development

NetBeans comes preconfigured with the GlassFish application server, and with the JavaDB RDBMS. If we wish to use the included GlassFish application server and JavaDB RDBMS, then there is nothing we need to do to configure NetBeans. We can, however, integrate NetBeans with other Java EE application servers such as JBoss/WildFly, WebLogic, or WebSphere and with other relational database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any RDBMS supported by JDBC, which pretty much means any RDBMS.

Integrating NetBeans with a third-party application server

Integrating NetBeans with an application server is very simple. To do so, we need to perform the following steps:

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In this section, we will illustrate ...

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