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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

Explaining the concept of an asynchronous EJB method


Launching events to elements that react to these events is a good mechanism for solving many kinds of problems during development. However, sometimes it is necessary to call a class method without blocking the process until this method completes the execution.

An asynchronous EJB method is a mechanism of EJB that allows the client to call a method and receive its return as soon as the method is invoked. The return of a method is in control of the asynchronous call represented by the Future<T> object. The client can control the execution of the asynchronous method. These actions can cancel the invocation method, check whether the invocation is completed, check whether the invocation has launched an exception, and check whether the invocation was cancelled.

Difference between an asynchronous EJB method and an event in CDI

An event in CDI and an asynchronous EJB method have the similar characteristic of making a nonblocking call to a task...