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Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse - Third Edition

By : Ram Kulkarni
Book Image

Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse - Third Edition

By: Ram Kulkarni

Overview of this book

Java EE is one of the most popular tools for enterprise application design and development. With recent changes to Java EE 8 specifications, Java EE application development has become a lot simpler with the new specifications, some of which compete with the existing specifications. This guide provides a complete overview of developing highly performant, robust and secure enterprise applications with Java EE with Eclipse. The book begins by exploring different Java EE technologies and how to use them (JSP, JSF, JPA, JDBC, EJB, and more), along with suitable technologies for different scenarios. You will learn how to set up the development environment for Java EE applications and understand Java EE specifications in detail, with an emphasis on examples. The book takes you through deployment of an application in Tomcat, GlassFish Servers, and also in the cloud. It goes beyond the basics and covers topics like debugging, testing, deployment, and securing your Java EE applications. You'll also get to know techniques to develop cloud-ready microservices in Java EE.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Free Chapter
1
Introducing JEE and Eclipse
Index

Using Maven for project management


In the projects that we have created thus far in this chapter, we have managed many project management tasks, such as downloading libraries on which our project depends, adding them to the appropriate folder so that the web application can find it, and exporting the project to create the WAR file for deployment. These are just some of the project management tasks that we have performed so far, but there are many more, which we will see in the subsequent chapters. It helps to have a tool do many of the project management tasks for us so that we can focus on application development. There are some well-known build management tools available for Java, for example, Apache Ant (http://ant.apache.org/) and Maven (http://maven.apache.org/).

In this section, we will see how to use Maven as a project management tool. By following the convention for creating the project structure and allowing projects to define the hierarchy, Maven makes project management easier...