There is some great information over at Geertjan's Blog on how to hit the ground running with Netbeans, CXF and Maven. Geertjan is a Netbeans evangelist and has an incredible insight into everything Netbeans.

WORKAROUND: There is a known issue with Netbeans 8 and TomEE detection that currently requires the following workaround:

Netbeans 8 has a bug in which it fails to find the tomee-common-[version].jar in the [TomEE]/lib directory. The solution is to simply rename the jar file to an older version.

For example, you have [TomEE]/lib/tomee-common-1.6.0.2.jar or [TomEE]/lib/tomee-common-1.7.1.jar. Rename these files to [TomEE]/lib/tomee-common-1.6.0.jar

This should resolve the detection issue and will not break your installation - Be sure to document the change for yourself as a reminder.

Quickstart

Check out this video on How to Consume REST in a Java Client

You can download Netbeans 8 here: https://netbeans.org/community/releases/80/

Here is a quick run through on how to set up TomEE. We will use one of the existing examples for this demo. Let's import it.

Click 'Open Project'.

It's time to add our local TomEE server. Click 'Tools' and then 'Servers'.

Select 'Apache Tomcat'.

Select your local TomEE directory.

It's time to run it. Click the play button.

Select 'Apache Tomcat'.

Give it some time. It's building your application.

Done. Your server is up and running.