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Java EE 8 and Angular

By : Prashant Padmanabhan
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Java EE 8 and Angular

By: Prashant Padmanabhan

Overview of this book

The demand for modern and high performing web enterprise applications is growing rapidly. No more is a basic HTML frontend enough to meet customer demands. This book will be your one-stop guide to build outstanding enterprise web applications with Java EE and Angular. It will teach you how to harness the power of Java EE to build sturdy backends while applying Angular on the frontend. Your journey to building modern web enterprise applications starts here! The book starts with a brief introduction to the fundamentals of Java EE and all the new APIs offered in the latest release. Armed with the knowledge of Java EE 8, you will go over what it's like to build an end-to-end application, configure database connection for JPA, and build scalable microservices using RESTful APIs running in Docker containers. Taking advantage of the Payara Micro capabilities, you will build an Issue Management System, which will have various features exposed as services using the Java EE backend. With a detailed coverage of Angular fundamentals, the book will expand the Issue Management System by building a modern single page application frontend. Moving forward, you will learn to fit both the pieces together, that is, the frontend Angular application with the backend Java EE microservices. As each unit in a microservice promotes high cohesion, you will learn different ways in which independent units can be tested efficiently. Finishing off with concepts on securing your enterprise applications, this book is a handson guide for building modern web applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Securing the application

Security concepts go beyond frameworks and applications in general. There are various strategies employed to secure both the frontend and backend. Solutions can range from OAuth to JSON Web Tokens (JWT) and more. As of now, our backend service doesn't have a security mechanism in place. We will look at security, which is better covered in the chapter aptly titled Securing the application.

There are identity platforms that can be leveraged to build security for our application. One such platform is Auth0, which solves identity use cases. The single-page application can follow an OAuth based-flow or use JWT token-based authentication for its authentication and authorization needs.

For our backend project, we will be using JWT for backend/API validation and for the frontend app we will store the issued token and pass it during each HTTP call. In this...