JPA Web App Tutorial - Maven Project

The JPA Web Application tutorial provides step by step instructions on how to build a simple Java/JPA database driven web application (for Tomcat / Jetty) in Eclipse or NetBeans.

Building a new application step by step is an effective way to learn - but if you prefer, you may download and run the result application as a Maven project:

JPA Web App - Maven Project (6KB)

If Maven is installed - extract the zip and run the application from the command line by:

> mvn package jetty:run

The current directory should be guestbook-web (containing the pom.xml file) and port 8080 has to be available for the Jetty embedded server.

No need to download and install ObjectDB or a Java web server - Maven will download the ObjectDB jar and the Jetty embedded server automatically.

When the Jetty server is ready - open your browser at http://localhost:8080/Guestbook/

You may also open and run the Maven project in your IDE:

• JPA Web App Tutorial - Eclipse Project
• JPA Web App Tutorial - NetBeans Project
• JPA Web App Tutorial - IntelliJ Project

NetBeans IDE and IntelliJ IDEA have built in Maven support.