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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

Chapter 8. Creating Web Applications with Spring MVC

In the last chapter, we learned how to create JEE applications using EJBs. In this chapter, we are going to divert a bit from the core JEE specifications and learn Spring MVC. 

Although this book is about JEE and Eclipse, and Spring MVC is not a part of JEE, it would be worthwhile to understand the Spring MVC framework. Spring MVC is a very popular framework for creating web applications and can be used with other JEE technologies, such as servlet, JSP, JPA, and EJBs.

JEE does support MVC out of the box, if you use JSF. Refer to Java Server Faces in Chapter 2, Creating a Simple JEE Web Application, for details. However, there is a difference in the design of JSF and Spring MVC. JSF is a component-based MVC framework. It is designed so that the user interface designer can create pages by assembling reusable components that are either provided by JSF or custom-developed. Spring MVC is a request-response-based MVC framework. If you are familiar...