While a lot of folks (our team included) spend most of their efforts spreading the good word on Java EE 7 and now increasingly Java EE 8, sometimes it helps to get back to the basics. This is especially true for beginners to Java EE and GlassFish. This point is fortunately not lost on Andrew Pielage of C2B2 consulting (the good folks that run the London GlassFish user group). In this extremely well written blog post Andrew explains step-by-step how to write, deploy and run a very simple web application using GlassFish 4 and NetBeans. He uses Windows in his instructions and I know that will actually be helpful to many of you since most corporate desktop environments still standardize on Windows.
If you know someone who could benefit from the nicely done entry, do make sure to share it. As such, there's few write-ups out there that are so basic and yet so incredibly helpful to the right person.
