Java EE 7 Development with NetBeans 8

Generating JSF applications from JPA entities

One very nice feature of NetBeans is that it allows us to generate JSF applications that will perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations from existing JPA entities. This feature, combined with the ability to create JPA entities from an existing database schema as described in the previous section, allows us to write web applications that interact with a database in record time.

To generate JSF pages from existing JPA entities, we need to right-click on File, select New File, select the JavaServer Faces category, and then select the JSF Pages from Entity Classes file type.

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