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 ...

The Netbeans Java environment lets you create a connection to a database and retrieve records from the database to display in your Java forms. You can also add records to the tables using the ...

Oracle plans to spend more money developing MySQL than Sun does now. Oracle expects to continue to develop and provide the open source MySQL database after the transaction closes.