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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 JPA implementations

The JPA specification initially evolved from the combined experiences of key ORM implementations including TopLink (from Oracle), Hibernate, and Kodo to name a few. These products revolutionized Java database interactions by abstracting the underlying SQL from the domain layer and simplifying the development effort required to implement the core CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, and Delete). Each implementation supports the JPA standards in addition to their own proprietary APIs. TopLink, for example, provides caching enhancements that are outside of the JPA specification as well as sophisticated query optimizations for Oracle databases. The implementation that you select may depend on the requirements of your application (for example, distributed caching) and also on the underlying database itself.

The GlassFish 4 server comes bundled with the open source EclipseLink JPA implementation, and this is what we will be using in our book. More information...