EJB & Web Service Applications Learning Trail

What Are EJB and Web Service Applications?

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology is a managed, server-side component architecture for modular construction of enterprise applications. EJB technology enables rapid and simplified development of distributed, transactional, secure and portable applications based on Java technology.

EJB technology includes the Java Persistence API. This is the standard API for the management of persistence and object/relational mapping. It provides an object/relational mapping facility for application developers using a Java domain model to manage a relational database.

EJB technology can be used to expose business methods as web services.

Web services are distributed application components that are externally available. You can use them to integrate computer applications that are written in different languages and run on different platforms. Web services are language and platform independent because vendors have agreed on common web service standards.

Both EJB and web service applications are deployed to a Java EE application server, such as GlassFish / Sun Java System Application Server.

This page provides links to some of the NetBeans documents and resources that can help you learn how to develop EJB and web service applications with NetBeans IDE.

Getting Started

Introduction to Java EE 5 Technology Introduction to Web Services Getting Started with Java EE Applications

Tutorials and Articles

New! NetBeans 6.5 Beta Tutorials and Guides

Generating a JavaServer Faces CRUD Application from a Database SaaS in PHP: Yahoo News Service

EJB Technology and Java Persistence

Java Persistence in the Java EE 5 Platform Using Java Persistence in a Web Application Using Hibernate in a Visual Web JSF Application Generating a JavaServer Faces CRUD Application from a Database Creating an Application Client Building Secure Enterprise Beans Profiling an Enterprise Application

SOAP Web Services

Getting Started with JAX-WS Web Services Developing JAX-WS Web Service Clients Creating Axis2 Web Services Binding WSDL to Java With JAXB Passing Binary Data in SOAP: part 1
part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 Creating a Loan Processing Composite Application
(Create a web service from an XML Schema contract)

RESTful Web Services

Getting Started with RESTful Web Services Creating and Consuming RESTful Web Service jMaki Components Exposing a MySQL Database with RESTful Web Services Creating RESTful Web Service Client Stubs

Software as a Service (SaaS)

SaaS: Zillow SaaS: Facebook Consuming Strikeiron Web Services

Web Service Reliability and Security

Advanced Web Service Interoperability Securing Web Services Using the SAML or UserNameToken Profiles Using Custom Keystore for Web Services Message Level Security

Screencasts

Hibernate Demo for NetBeans IDE 6.1 and 6.5 netbeans.tv: Visual Mobile Designer and Web Services in NetBeans 6.0 java.net: Secure and Reliable Web Services using Metro/GlassFish YouTube: SOCRADES: Demonstration of Web Services on Sun SPOT Devices

All Screencasts

Sample Applications

User Authentication Web App Using Java EE 5 Using the Java Persistence API in a Stand-Alone Web App JSF CRUD Web Application with Java Persistence API Developing a Long-Tail Backend with Java EE 5 Dependency Injection with Stateless Session Beans

All Sample Applications

Community-Contributed Docs

Transforming SOAP Messages with XSLT, by Siegfried Bolz Creating a Java Client for del.icio.us RESTful Web Services, by Amit Kumar Saha Creating EJB3 Sessions Beans using Netbeans 6.1 and Glassfish, by Jair Rillo Junior Developing Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Maven and NetBeans, by Wouter van Reeven Beginning with Enterprise Application Development with NetBeans 6.0, by Arpit Agarwal Developing a loan processing application using Apache CXF and JPA in NetBeans 6.1, by Arulazi Dhesiaseelan A SOAP Client for Open Calais, by Amit Kumar Saha Creating SOAP Web Services with NetBeans 6, by Siegfried Bolz

All Community-Contributed Docs

Other Resources

Tutorials and Other Docs

The Java EE 5 Tutorial Join the GlassFish Community JavaPassion Java EE Free Introduction to Java EE from JavaPassion RESTful Web Services in 60 Seconds Building an EJB 3.0 application using GlassFish, Apache Maven 2 and NetBeans IDE 6.0 Integrating Seam with Maven, NetBeans and GlassFish Combining Hibernate and Facelets with Maven, NetBeans and GlassFish 5 Techniques for Creating Java Web Services from WSDL Spring Framework Support in Jersey REST 0.7 Advanced Web Service Interoperability Made Easy Axis2 Web Service Support in NetBeans IDE 6.1 Getting Started with "Software as a Service" WS-I Validation in Netbeans Using the soapUI Plugin

FAQs

Java EE Development FAQs Web Service Development FAQs

Blogs

Harold Carr: Enterprise Web Service Interoperability Arun Gupta: Web Applications Vivek Panday: XML and Web Services Paul Sandoz: RESTful Web Services Geertjan Wielenga: NetBeans IDE Platform Jeff Rubinoff: Web Services Vince Kraemer: Java EE