I'm trying to create a portal for prototyping purposes and see
netbeans as the only app around in Solaris-world
If so can anyone recommend a good text I can buy to get up&running
here (or online docs)  - and know of any sites with good examples of

I've got this simple Book-class, whose objects should be stored in a
database:
import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.persistence.Entity;