The NetBeans IDE and GlassFish provide a seamless experience for developing/deploying a Java EE 6 application. GlassFish also provides several other features, such as nonintrusive REST monitoring, that are very typical of a Java EE 6 production deployment. This hands-on session begins with developing/deploying a typical Java EE 6 application with NetBeans and GlassFish. You will learn how to create a two-instance GlassFish cluster and front end with a Web server and a load balancer. The application demonstrates session replication when one of the instances fail. You will also learn how to use the extensible monitoring infrastructure to generate application-specific monitoring data. This session will equip you to put a Java EE 6 application into production.

This talk introduces the Java EE 7 platform, the latest revision of the Java platform for the enterprise. The focus of Java EE 7 is on the cloud, and specifically it aims to bring Platform-as-a-Service providers and application developers together so that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure and reap all its benefits in terms of scalability, elasticity, multitenancy, etc. Furthermore, Java EE 7 continues the ease of development push that characterized prior releases by bringing further simplification to enterprise development. It also adds new, important APIs such as the REST client API in JAX-RS 2.0 and plenty of improvements to all other components.