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Java EE 8 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Rhuan Rocha, Joao Carlos Purificação
Book Image

Java EE 8 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Rhuan Rocha, Joao Carlos Purificação

Overview of this book

Patterns are essential design tools for Java developers. Java EE Design Patterns and Best Practices helps developers attain better code quality and progress to higher levels of architectural creativity by examining the purpose of each available pattern and demonstrating its implementation with various code examples. This book will take you through a number of patterns and their Java EE-specific implementations. In the beginning, you will learn the foundation for, and importance of, design patterns in Java EE, and then will move on to implement various patterns on the presentation tier, business tier, and integration tier. Further, you will explore the patterns involved in Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and take a closer look at reactive patterns. Moving on, you will be introduced to modern architectural patterns involved in composing microservices and cloud-native applications. You will get acquainted with security patterns and operational patterns involved in scaling and monitoring, along with some patterns involved in deployment. By the end of the book, you will be able to efficiently address common problems faced when developing applications and will be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
Aspect-Oriented Programming and Design Patterns
Index

Understanding the business tier


Before talking about the business patterns and the use of these patterns from the perspective of JEE8 and its technologies, we must identify where the business logic of an application will be within the JEE framework. As we have already seen, JEE architecture basically has three tiers. Most JEE technologies, such as Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and Java Persistence API (JPA), are related to the business tier. The EJB container is located in the business tier, but there are a few other technologies that navigate the entire JEE framework, such as CDI and Bean Validation. However, the most important thing to know is that the core business-logic application is executed in the business tier.

 

We will see three important patterns in the business tier. We will briefly explain the definition and goal of each pattern:

  • Business Delegate pattern: It is a proxy for the business service, hiding the service lookup and the remote invocation. 

  • Session Façade pattern: Encapsulates...