Getting started with netbeans-tomcat-maven-web framework

November 2012

• I recommend running netbeans on your desktop/laptop machine)
• Start by making sure you have Java installed (recommended version is Java Platform (JDK) 7u9)
  • Download from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads
  • Also in /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/java/jdk1.7
• Then install Netbeans from http://netbeans.org/
  • Current version is 7.2 -- use the Java EE version
  • When installing netbeans also install latest version of tomcat (7.0.27)
• Customizing your netbeans configuration
  • Add database definitions in server.conf inside <GlobalNamingResouces>

        <GlobalNamingResources>
            <!-- Editable user database that can also be used by
                 UserDatabaseRealm to authenticate users
            -->
            <Resource auth="Container" description="User database that can be updated and saved" factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory" name="UserDatabase" pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"/>
            <Resource driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" maxActive="4" maxIdle="2" maxWait="5000" name="jdbc/config-prod" password="RWP_change3" type="javax.sql.DataSource" url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@sca-oracle01.slac.stanford.edu:1521:dpf01" username="CONFIG"/>
            <Resource driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" maxActive="4" maxIdle="2" maxWait="5000" name="jdbc/config-srs" password="RWP_change3" type="javax.sql.DataSource" url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@sca-oracle01.slac.stanford.edu:1521:dpf01" username="CONFIG"/>
    
        </GlobalNamingResources>
    

  • Add (attached ) mysql/oracle database drivers into
    • ~/.netbeans/7.3beta/apache-tomcat-7.0.27.0_base/lib
• We have created a skelton project to get you started
  • Linked here .
  • Open in netbeans and you are ready to get started
• Intro to maven
  • Look at pom.xml in the default application
• Run using tomcat
  • Running using tomcat built into Netbeans
  • Deploy to remote server
    • settings.xml
• Simple JSP page
• Database JSP page
• JSP philosophy
  • Embedded Java code
  • JSTL -- tag libraries
  • Java code vs JSP code
  • Hibernate, model-view, etc.etc.
• Other useful links:
  • http://srs.slac.stanford.edu/Commons/ -- Documentation on many Max utilities
  • http://www.displaytag.org/1.2/ -- For making sortable, paginated tables
  • http://bellsouthpwp.net/b/i/billsigg/jstl-quick-reference.pdf -- JSTL quick reference