Foreword to the First Edition

<authorgroup>Bill Shannon</authorgroup>

The NetBeans IDE was the first free and open source tool to provide support for building J2EE web tier applications five years ago. With the 4.1 release, the NetBeans IDE has advanced even further to include full support for building complete J2EE 1.4 applications, including Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) components, as well as supporting the key new capability of J2EE 1.4—web services.

EJB components have been a core strength of the J2EE platform from the beginning. The NetBeans IDE now provides support for creating and using EJB components. Developers can create EJB session beans to contain their transactional business logic, and use message-driven beans to create event-driven applications. ...

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