Creating your first Java EE 6 application with JBoss Forge

So Forge installation is quite easy; however, creating your first Java EE 6 application will be even faster! Although we can create rather advanced applications with Forge, for the purpose of learning we will just use a simple schema that contains a user table, which can be built using the following command:

CREATE TABLE user (
id int(10) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY auto_increment,
name varchar(50),
surname varchar(50),
email varchar(50));

The first thing we need to do is to create a new project using the new-project command. Execute from within the Forge shell the following commands:

new-project --named forge-demo --topLevelPackage com.packtpub.as7development.appendix –projectFolder forge-demo ...

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