J2EE with NetBeans

You can download the following simple demo presentation:
(the presenter's pronounciation is very clear, feel free to practice your listening skill :D ):

http://mediacast.sun.com/users/ArunGupta/media/v3prelude-nb65-webapp.flv

IMHO GlassFish is a fairly good Application Server, compared to JBoss, although the core servlet containers of both are derived from the same (Tomcat).