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Java EE 8 Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Rhuan Rocha, Joao Carlos Purificação
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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 presentation tier


The Java EE platform is a distributed multitiered application model that has three widely used common tiers. These tiers are the presentation tier (or web tier), the business tier, and the integration tier (or EIS tier).

The presentation tier, also known as the web tier, contains the components that create a web application. This tier has many components that use the HTTP protocol, construct views and interfaces for users, and provide a web service. These components are called web components. There are two types of presentation tier:

  • Presentation-oriented tier: This type of presentation tier contains the components to construct an interactive web page and dynamic content using HTML and XHTML. These components are JavaServer Faces technology, Java Servlet technology, and JavaServer Page technology, which allow us to construct an interactive web page.
  • Server-oriented tier: This contains the components to construct an endpoint of a web service. These components...