Setting up project in Netbeans

Hello

This is the part 2 of the series about working with maven, spring, and hibernate together. In this post we will be using Linux Mint Nadia, a cousin of Ubuntu 12.10 and Netbeans.

Creating the project

• Click: File > New Project
• Categories: Maven > Project: Web Application
• Click Next



• Project Name: springDataMVCFamily
• GroupId: net.djomeda.tutorials
• Click: Next

After filling the 2 parts above the IDE will fill the rest of the fields



• Make sure you have the setting like shown bellow



From my experiences it’s always good to have a web.xml file after creating a java web application

• Click: File> New File
• Categories: Web> File Types: Standard Deployment Descriptor (web.xml)



• Click: Next

Set the location to your WEB-INF folder which is assumed to be automatically generated by netbeans



We will note $TUTORIAL_HOME as where you created the project example: /media/Repo/netbeansworkspace/springDataMVCFamily for me.

• Go to $TUTORIAL_HOME/src/main
• create folder “resources” such as shown bellow



Once done Netbeans will automatically reload the folder structure and inside the IDE it will show like “Other Sources” in there, we will create our properties files to hold our parameters etc.

• Do the same for $TUTORIAL_HOME/src/test/resources

It will be loaded in netbeans as “Other Test Sources”
Let’s create the various java packages needed for this project

• Right Click springDataMVCFamily > New > Java Package
• net.djomeda.tutorials.springdatamvcfamily.controller
• net.djomeda.tutorials.springdatamvcfamily.form
• net.djomeda.tutorials.springdatamvcfamily.model
• net.djomeda.tutorials.springdatamvcfamily.repository
• net.djomeda.tutorials.springdatamvcfamily.service
• Right Click: Other Sources > /src/main/resources > New > Other
• Categories: Other > File Types: properties file
• Create family.properties

Now let’s create prepare our project for all needed dependencies

• Locate project files in the projects tab
• Collapse the plus signe and click on pom.xml as shown bellow



• Edit pom as shown bellow

[xml]
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<groupId>net.djomeda.tutorials</groupId>
<artifactId>springDataMVCFamily</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>

<name>springDataMVCFamily</name>

<properties>
<hibernate.version>4.2.1.Final</hibernate.version>
<mysql.connector.version>5.1.8</mysql.connector.version>
<slf4j.version>1.6.6</slf4j.version>
<logback.version>1.0.7</logback.version>
<spring.version>3.2.2.RELEASE</spring.version>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.10</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
<artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!– Spring MVC –>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
<version>${spring.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>cglib</groupId>
<artifactId>cglib</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
<version>1.3.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.javax.persistence</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-jpa-2.0-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.Final</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-c3p0</artifactId>
<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
<version>4.0.2.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>${mysql.connector.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>${slf4j.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
<version>${logback.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
<version>${logback.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
<artifactId>logback-access</artifactId>
<version>${logback.version}</version>
</dependency>

</dependencies>

<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.2</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

</project>

[/xml]

In order to build with maven, make sure the computer has access to internet

• Let’s build our project: click on clean and build icon or press shift+ F11



If the build is successful and am sure it will , 😉 we can move to running the project




• Let’s run our project: click on run icon or press F6

Voila, now that we are sure that our project is completely set and can run without an issue, let’s move on to the next part with is about creating models with JPA.