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Architecting Modern Java EE Applications

By : Sebastian Daschner
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Architecting Modern Java EE Applications

By: Sebastian Daschner

Overview of this book

Java EE 8 brings with it a load of features, mainly targeting newer architectures such as microservices, modernized security APIs, and cloud deployments. This book will teach you to design and develop modern, business-oriented applications using Java EE 8. It shows how to structure systems and applications, and how design patterns and Domain Driven Design aspects are realized in the age of Java EE 8. You will learn about the concepts and principles behind Java EE applications, and how to effect communication, persistence, technical and cross-cutting concerns, and asynchronous behavior. This book covers Continuous Delivery, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, containers, container orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, and why and especially how Java EE fits into this world. It also covers the requirements behind containerized, zero-dependency applications and how modern Java EE application servers support these approaches. You will also learn about automated, fast, and reliable software tests, in different test levels, scopes, and test technologies. This book covers the prerequisites and challenges of distributed systems that lead to microservice, shared-nothing architectures. The challenges and solutions of consistency versus scalability will further lead us to event sourcing, event-driven architectures, and the CQRS principle. This book also includes the nuts and bolts of application performance as well as how to realize resilience, logging, monitoring and tracing in a modern enterprise world. Last but not least the demands of securing enterprise systems are covered. By the end, you will understand the ins and outs of Java EE so that you can make critical design decisions that not only live up to, but also surpass your clients' expectations.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
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Appendix: Links and further resources

Core domain components of modern Java EE


Plain Java together with CDI and EJB form the core domain components of a modern Java EE application. Why is it called core domain? As mentioned, we want to pay attention to the actual business. There are aspects, components, and functionality that serve the business purpose at their core, whereas others just support, make the business domain accessible, or fulfill other technical requirements.

Java EE ships with many APIs that support realizing dozens of technical requirements. Most of them are technically motivated though. The biggest advantage of the Java EE platform, however, is that clean Java business logic can be implemented with minimal code impact of the technology. The APIs required for that are mainly CDI and EJB. Other APIs, that are required for technical motivations, such as JPA, JAX-RS, JSON-P, and many others, are introduced with a secondary priority.

Managed beans, no matter whether CDI or EJB, are implemented as annotated Java classes...