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Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE

By : Raghavendra Rao K
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Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE

By: Raghavendra Rao K

Overview of this book

Kotlin was developed with a view to solving programmers’ difficulties and operational challenges. This book guides you in making Kotlin and Java EE work in unison to build enterprise-grade applications. Together, they can be used to create services of any size with just a few lines of code and let you focus on the business logic. Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE begins with a brief tour of Kotlin and helps you understand what makes it a popular and reasonable choice of programming language for application development, followed by its incorporation in the Java EE platform. We will then learn how to build applications using the Java Persistence API (JPA) and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), as well as develop RESTful web services and MicroServices. As we work our way through the chapters, we’ll use various performance improvement and monitoring tools for your application and see how they optimize real-world applications. At each step along the way, we will see how easy it is to develop enterprise applications in Kotlin. By the end of this book, we will have learned design patterns and how to implement them using Kotlin.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

The IdentityStore mechanism

IdentityStore is where we can store user details such as user ID, secrets, and other information associated with that particular identity. The IdentityStore API in Java EE 8 is an interface that is used to interact with the identity stores in order to validate the user credentials against the identity store. The API takes in the credentials, validates the data in the identity store, and returns the validation result. The idea of this abstraction is to ease the use of identity stores for user authentication and authorization mechanisms. The IdentityStore mechanism operates as follows:

The user's credentials can consist of a userID and Password, or an OAuth token, depending on the data store implementation in the application. The IdentityStore API validates this information by locating this data in the data store, and returns a status to indicate...