This TOTD ( T ip O f T he D ay) shows how to create a Persistence Unit (PU) for a MySQL database using NetBeans IDE. This PU can then be used in any of Java EE artifacts (JSP, Servlet, EJB ...

How to Execute a Servlet in Netbeans. Netbeans gives programmers and Web designers the ability to create Java and JSP servlets, which run customized code in a user's browser.

Version 7.4 of the IDE extends the HTML5 support provided in the previous release to Java EE and PHP applications, and becomes the first IDE to provide support for JDK 8 developer preview builds.