NetBeans Tooling Support for the Java EE Service Engine

To make Java EE web services work with JBI runtime components, deploy Java EE web services as part of a composite application. NetBeans provides full fledged support to create/deploy/manager the Java EE Service Units. NetBeans 6.1 includes additional server resource support for Java EE applications packaged inside composite applications. Java EE projects or components can be deployed through the Service Assembly, or they can be deployed independently with optimization of the intra-JVM communication.

These two deployment methods address the issue of Java EE applications packaged inside composite applications with resource dependencies, such as connection pools or JMS destinations, that are created before deployment. The addition of server resource support for Java EE applications makes resolving resource dependencies easier by combining all the resource dependencies of a Java EE application into a single sun-resources.xml before packaging the information into a .jar or .war file.

For additional information on this tooling support, see the help topic “About JBI and Java EE Web Services” in the NetBeans help.