Chapter 1, Getting Started with NetBeans, provides an introduction to NetBeans, giving time-saving tips and tricks that will result in more efficient development of Java applications.

Chapter 2, Developing Web Applications Using JavaServer Faces 2.2, explains how NetBeans can help us easily develop web applications that take advantage of the JavaServer Faces 2.2 framework.

Chapter 3, JSF Component Libraries, covers how NetBeans can help us easily develop JSF applications using popular component libraries such as PrimeFaces, RichFaces, and ICEfaces.

Chapter 4, Interacting with Databases through the Java Persistence API, explains how NetBeans allows us to easily develop applications taking advantage of the Java Persistence API (JPA), including how to automatically generate JPA entities from existing schemas. This chapter also covers how complete web-based applications can be generated with a few clicks from an existing database schema.

Chapter 5, Implementing the Business Tier with Session Beans, discusses how NetBeans simplifies EJB 3.1 session bean development.

Chapter 6, Contexts and Dependency Injection, discusses how the CDI API introduced in Java EE 6 can help us integrate the different layers of our application.

Chapter 7, Messaging with JMS and Message-driven Beans, explains Java EE messaging technologies such as the Java Message Service (JMS) and Message-driven Beans (MDB), covering NetBeans' features that simplify application development taking advantage of these APIs.

Chapter 8, Java API for JSON Processing, explains how to process JSON data using the new JSON-P Java EE API.

Chapter 9, Java API for WebSocket, explains how to use the new Java API for WebSocket to develop web-based applications featuring full duplex communication between the browser and the server.

Chapter 10, RESTful Web Services with JAX-RS, covers RESTful web services with the Java API for RESTful Web Services, including coverage of how NetBeans can automatically generate RESTful web services and both Java and JavaScript RESTful web service clients.

Chapter 11, SOAP Web Services with JAX-WS, explains how NetBeans can help us easily develop SOAP web services based on the Java API for the XML Web Services (JAX-WS) API.