What you need for this book

To use this book, you need to download and install the NetBeans IDE on either Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.

You also need to have a modern version of Java (preferably, Java 8). To benefit the most when learning about web services and EJB-related technologies, a Java EE application server is required. The enterprise download bundle of NetBeans is supplied with full support for GlassFish 4 Open Source edition.