How do I upgrade an existing enterprise project from Java EE5 to Java EE 6 in Netbeans (6.9)

Question

The project has an EJB module & a web module. Changing the server is easy, but I\'d like to switch to EJB 3.1 also but I believe I need to change all kind of configurati

Answer 1

Apparently it's not that complicated. It worked for me by modifying the following files:

/nbproject/project.properties change the following lines:

j2ee.platform=1.5
javac.source=1.5
javac.target=1.5

to

j2ee.platform=1.6
javac.source=1.6
javac.target=1.6

Repeat the same for:

/-ejb/nbproject/project.properties

/-war/nbproject/project.properties

In ejb-jar.xml change the line:

to

Next, find persistence.xml and change this line:

to