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Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring

By : Gierer
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Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring

By: Gierer

Overview of this book

Spring and Ext JS are cutting edge frameworks that allow us to build high performance web applications for modern devices, that are now consuming data at a faster rate than ever before. It is the appropriate time for you to understand how to best leverage these technologies when architecting, designing, and developing large scale web development projects. This practical guide condenses an approach to web development that was gained from real world projects, and outlines a simple, practical approach to developing high performance, and enterprise grade web applications. Starting with configuring Java, NetBeans, and MySQL to prepare your development environment, you will then learn how to connect your NetBeans IDE to the MySQL database server. We will then explore the Task Time Tracker (3T) project database structure and populate these tables with test data. Following on from this, we will examine core JPA concepts after reverse engineering the domain layer with NetBeans. Leveraging the Data Access Object design pattern, you will learn how to build the Java DAO implementation layer assisted by generics in base classes, followed by a Data Transfer Object enabled service layer to encapsulate the business logic of your 3T application. The final chapters that focus on Java explore how to implement the request handling layer using Spring annotated controllers, and deploy the 3T application to the GlassFish server. We will then configure the Ext JS 4 development environment and introduce key Ext JS 4 concepts, including MVC and practical design conventions. Covering a variety of important Ext JS 4 strategies and concepts, you will be fully-equipped to implement a variety of different user interfaces using the Ext JS MVC design pattern. Your journey ends by exploring the production build and deployment process using Maven, Sencha Cmd and GlassFish.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
14
A. Introducing Spring Data JPA
15
Index

Understanding the reasons for using JPA

JPA is a productivity tool that allows developers to focus on business rather than write low-level SQL and JDBC codes. It completely eliminates the need to map a Java ResultSet to Java domain objects and greatly reduces the amount of effort required to produce a usable and functional application. A JPA-based application will be easier to maintain, test, and enhance. More importantly, the quality of your application code will significantly increase and the domain entities will become self-documenting.

From personal experience, I estimate the time taken to write a traditional SQL application (without JPA, coding the CRUD SQL statements directly) to be in the order of 10-15 times longer than with the JPA approach. This translates into an enormous saving of time and effort for enterprise applications where cost saving can amount to many man-months of work. During the lifecycle of an application, when maintenance, bug fixes, and enhancements are taken...