Introduction I’ve found that one of the most productive ways of developing Java EE applications is by using NetBeans and the TomEE application server. For those of you that haven’t used TomEE before, it’s a Java EE 6 Web Profile certified stack that sits on top of Apache Tomcat. As TomEE is Java EE 6 web profile certified, it supports the following technologies (all via Apache products) out of the box:

Introduction Using NetBeans 6.8M1 and GlassFish v3, its possible to write Java EE 6 web applications. In this article i’ll be showing what managed beans look like and how they are linked up in Facelets pages. I’ll also show how to localize the application for use with different languages. Finally, I’ll show how the Bean Validation Framework (JSR-303) can be used to add simple validation to POJOs. To show these features, I’ve written a simple “Hello World” program.

NetBeans 8 provides native support for WildFly 8. Sometimes however, WildFly can fail to start from within NetBeans. In these instances, the following error is displayed within the NetBeans “WildFly Application Server” output window. Calling "C:Dev\Tools\wildfly-8.0.0.Final\bin\standalone.conf.bat" | was unexpected at this time. This error has been reported as NetBeans error 242661. To get around the problem, bring up the server properties for WildFly (right click on WildFly in the services tab and choose Properties).