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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)

Summary

Our APIs are developed with standard Java EE 8 features using modern day solutions such as Docker and Payara Micro. The solution built is flexible in terms of the deployment strategy, as it can be distributed as a standard web application archive (WAR), as an Uber JAR, or as a Docker image. We learned how Payara features such as Payara API, Clustered CDI Events, and maven plugins can ease development when working with Payara Micro.

Our REST API endpoints use a standard JSON format for data exchange and conform to HTTP standards. By using standards, we improve our code portability. Also, the web services approach allows other developers to consume our API without having to know the implementation details. JSON is an industry leader when it comes to data exchange and provides a very simple structure, which we have utilized in this IMS backend project. The project was built...