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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 authentication interceptor


In an enterprise application, authentication is a very important process and this can be done using many techniques. In Java EE 8, one of these techniques is the interceptor pattern. 

The interceptor pattern is an advanced programming technique that makes it possible to intercept an object call and process algorithms before or after processing the call. This works as aspect-oriented programming (AOP), which makes it possible to include behavior in a process without altering its logic. To implement this using Java EE 8, we can use either the EJB interceptor or the CDI interceptor. We can also select which kind of interceptor to use, depending on whether we are intercepting an EJB class/method or a CDI class/method.

The authentication interceptor is a technique that uses an interceptor pattern either through an EJB interceptor or a CDI interceptor. This is done to add authentication logic before or after using the business logic aspect of oriented programming...