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If you take a look at the tutorials on our VWP tutorials index page, you'll note that the tutorials are organized by category. On this page, we've organized those same tutorials into four learning trails to help you find a tutorial based on your skill level. The first trail covers the basics of creating a visual web application. From there, you move onto more advanced (and quicker-paced) trails on components, databases, and Ajax.

Trail 1: Creating a Basic Web Application

If you are new to visual web application development, follow this trail through the tutorials. These tutorials cover the basics of web application and do not require any prior experience working with an integrated development environment (IDE). After you complete these tutorials, you should be able to create your own working application that accesses a database.

Tutorial 1: Developing a Web Application
Tutorial 2: Understanding Scope and Managed Beans
Tutorial 3: Using Databound Components to Access a Database
Tutorial 4: Setting Up Page Navigation
Tutorial 5: Using Page Fragments

Trail 2: Learning More About Components and Databases

These tutorials go into the nitty-gritty details about components and databases and require a bit more programming knowledge. The final tutorial takes a little more time to complete as it covers the common (albeit advanced) scenario of creating a CRUD application. By the time you have completed this trail, you should be able to create a more sophisticated web application.

Tutorial 1: Delving Into Components
Tutorial 2: Using List Components
Tutorial 3: Using the File Upload Component
Tutorial 4: Using the Calendar Component
Tutorial 5: Building a Tree From Database Data
Tutorial 6: Performing Inserts, Updates, and Deletes

Trail 3: Putting Ajax Into Action

If you've come this far, you're ready to work with the Ajax components. These components can make your web application appear more responsive (due to asynchronous refreshes of the page).

Tutorial 1: Downloading and Importing Ajax and Other Components
Tutorial 2: Using the Ajax Text Completion Component
Tutorial 3: Using the Ajax Progress Bar Component
Tutorial 4: Using the Ajax Map Viewer Component
Tutorial 5: Using the Ajax Rating Component

Trail 4: Working With Third-Party Software

This trail is for you if you want to extend outside the bounds of Visual Web Pack and work with either the Hibernate or JasperReports frameworks.

Tutorial 1: Using Hibernate With NetBeans Visual Web Pack
Tutorial 2: Generating Reports and PDFs From a Web Application