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Mastering Netbeans

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785282645
Pages 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

Mastering NetBeans
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with NetBeans 2. Editing Files and Projects 3. The NetBeans Developer's Life Cycle 4. Managing Services 5. Database Persistence 6. Desktop Development 7. Creating the Business Layer 8. Creating the Web Tier 9. Creating and Consuming Web Services 10. Extending NetBeans Index

Databases


Many applications require databases to store information, ranging from embedded data using tools such as Apache Derby to large enterprise databases such as Oracle. Java does not only provide many different APIs to access these databases, such as JDBC and JPA, but also provides the facilities for managing databases, whether they are local to the developer's machine or hosted remotely. We'll look at developing against databases in the next chapter, but first, let's take a look at how we can manage databases from within NetBeans.

The first entry in the Services window in NetBeans (on a fresh installation with no additional plugins installed) is the Databases explorer:

Expanding the Databases node in the Services window allows us to see what databases we have registered along with the database drivers that are installed within NetBeans and any connections that we have made to the databases.

Connecting to Java DB

NetBeans provides native support for Java DB (Apache Derby) and MySQL. Connections...

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