NetBeans¿ IDE Field Guide: Developing Desktop, Web, Enterprise, and Mobile Applications / Patrick Keegan, Ludovic Champenois, Gregory Crawley, Charlie Hunt, Christopher Webster

The Only Complete Guide and Reference for NetBeans IDE 4.1!

The award-winning NetBeans integrated development environment is today's state-of-the-art Java IDE. NetBeans is the first free, open source IDE to support Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0, and it's a leader in providing advanced support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), and other technologies. NetBeans IDE eases all aspects of Java application development, incorporating a wide range of powerful features into one well-designed package.

NetBeansâ„¢ IDE Field Guide is a comprehensive introductory guide and task reference--it's the fast-answers NetBeans "cookbook" for every Java developer. The authors show you how to use NetBeans to build applications for the desktop, web, enterprise, and handset. Coverage includes

• Navigating NetBeans IDE, and creating, opening, and configuring projects
• Using NetBeans' special Ant integration to work with complex existing projects
• Maximizing productivity in everyday coding, debugging, and refactoring
• Developing web applications with NetBeans' built-in Apache Tomcat Web server
• Creating and consuming web services
• Using enterprise beans to extend web applications with business logic
• Constructing, assembling, and verifying large-scale J2EE applications
• Managing the Sun Java System Application Server through NetBeans IDE
• Developing J2ME handheld applications with the NetBeans Mobility Pack

If you're new to NetBeans, this book will help you quickly leverage its power throughout the entire edit-compile-test-debug-deploy cycle. If you've worked with older versions, you'll learn how to make the most of its dramatic improvements. Whatever you're building with Java, NetBeansâ„¢ IDE Field Guide will help you build it faster, better, and more efficiently.