You're reading from Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring Designed for intermediate developers, this superb tutorial will lead you step by step through the process of developing enterprise web applications combining two leading-edge frameworks. Take a big leap forward in easy stages.

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783285457

Length 446 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Ext JS

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Gerald Gierer

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Preparing Your Development Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. The Task Time Tracker Database

3. Reverse Engineering the Domain Layer with JPA

4. Data Access Made Easy

5. Testing the DAO Layer with Spring and JUnit

6. Back to Business – The Service Layer

7. The Web Request Handling Layer

8. Running 3T on GlassFish

9. Getting Started with Ext JS 4

10. Logging On and Maintaining Users

11. Building the Task Log User Interface

12. 3T Administration Made Easy

13. Moving Your Application to Production

A. Introducing Spring Data JPA

Index

Chapter 1. Preparing Your Development Environment

This chapter will install and configure your development environment. The Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool is NetBeans, an open source, cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that can be used for creating visual desktop, mobile, web, and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. NetBeans officially supports Java, PHP, JavaScript, and C/C++ programming languages, but it is best known for providing a complete toolset for all the latest Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) standards (currently Java EE 7).

The database of choice for this book is MySQL, the world's most widely used open source Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). MySQL is the most popular choice of database for web applications hosted on Linux platforms and continues to deliver outstanding performance in a multitude of applications. Its small footprint and ease of use makes it perfect for development use on a single computer.

The application server used in this book is GlassFish 4, which comes bundled with the NetBeans download. GlassFish is installed as part of the NetBeans installation, and the tight integration between the two makes configuring GlassFish a simple process. GlassFish is an open source, production-quality application server that implements all the Java EE 7 features. It has enterprise-grade reliability and is considered by many to be the best open source application server available. GlassFish 4 is the Reference Implementation (RI) for the Java EE 7 specification, a full description of which can be found at https://glassfish.java.net/downloads/ri/.

All of these development tools are freely available for PC, Mac, and Linux. Each tool has extensive examples, comprehensive tutorials, and online support forums available.

It should be noted that although this chapter focuses on NetBeans, MySQL, and GlassFish, it is possible for you to configure any appropriate combination of tools that they are familiar with. The development tasks outlined in this book can just as easily be followed using Eclipse, Oracle, and JBoss—although some described configuration details may require minor modifications.

In this chapter, we will perform the following tasks:

Install the MySQL Database server
Install the Java SDK
Install and configure the NetBeans IDE
Create the application project and explore Maven
Run the project in GlassFish

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