Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

• ... in the NetBeans Services tab’s Databases > Java DB node.

• databaseName—The database’s name.

• user—The username for logging into the database.

• password—The password for logging into the database.¹

  1. Future versions of Java EE might include password aliases to hide the database’s password for additional security.

Though we do not do so here, the @DataSourceDefinition annotation also can create the database, by specifiying the attribute

properties = {“createDatabase=create”}

The app could then create the database’s table(s) programmatically. We manually created the database in advance so we could prepopulate it with sample address data.

Class AddressBean’s Annotations—@Named and @javax.faces.view.ViewScoped

In Chapter 30, we introduced the @ManagedBean ...