The Pet Catalog application is a Java EE 6 sample that demonstrates usage of JavaServer Faces 2.0 and the Java Persistence API. Setup instructions here assume that you are using the following software components:
For more information on the Pet Catalog Sample Application, see: http://netbeans.org/kb/samples/pet-catalog.html.
Setup instructions use 'root' / 'nbuser' as the user
account / password combination for access to the MySQL server. Do not
use an empty database password.
nbuser'bin directory
within your MySQL installation.
shell> cd <install-dir>/bin(Where
<install-dir> is the path to your MySQL
installation directory.)
shell> mysql -u root
mysql> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = PASSWORD('nbuser') WHERE User = 'root';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
For more information, see the official MySQL Reference Manual:
Securing
the Initial MySQL Accounts.

localhost3306rootnbuser
petcatalog. Select the
'Grant Full Access to' option, then select root@localhost from
the drop-down field.
petcatalog is
created, and a connection to the database is automatically established.
Connections are displayed in the Services window using a connection node (
).catalog.sql to open it in the IDE's editor.jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/petcatalog connection that you
created in the previous step.
) button in the editor's toolbar. The script runs on your MySQL server.The glassfish-resources.xml file, included in the sample application, is a
GlassFish-specific deployment descriptor. If you open the file in the editor (from
the Projects window, Server Resources > glassfish-resources.xml), you can
see that the file instructs the GlassFish server to create a connection pool named
petCatalogPool using the 'root' / 'nbuser'
combination and jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/petcatalog connection you
configured in the previous steps:
<jdbc-connection-pool allow-non-component-callers="false"
associate-with-thread="false"
connection-creation-retry-attempts="0"
connection-creation-retry-interval-in-seconds="10"
connection-leak-reclaim="false"
connection-leak-timeout-in-seconds="0"
connection-validation-method="auto-commit"
datasource-classname="com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource"
fail-all-connections="false"
idle-timeout-in-seconds="300"
is-connection-validation-required="false"
is-isolation-level-guaranteed="true"
lazy-connection-association="false"
lazy-connection-enlistment="false"
match-connections="false"
max-connection-usage-count="0"
max-pool-size="32"
max-wait-time-in-millis="60000"
name="petCatalogPool"
non-transactional-connections="false"
pool-resize-quantity="2"
res-type="javax.sql.ConnectionPoolDataSource"
statement-timeout-in-seconds="-1"
steady-pool-size="8"
validate-atmost-once-period-in-seconds="0"
wrap-jdbc-objects="false">
<property name="URL" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/petcatalog"/>
<property name="User" value="root"/>
<property name="Password" value="nbuser"/>
</jdbc-connection-pool>
The glassfish-resources.xml file also instructs the GlassFish server
to configure a data source that uses the petCatalogPool connection
pool and sets its JNDI name to 'jdbc/petcatalog':
<jdbc-resource enabled="true"
jndi-name="jdbc/petcatalog"
object-type="user"
pool-name="petCatalogPool">
</jdbc-resource>
PetCatalog project node
and choose Run. The project is compiled, packaged and deployed to GlassFish.
The deployed application then opens in your default browser.