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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

By : Lee
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Java 9 Programming Blueprints

By: Lee

Overview of this book

Java is a powerful language that has applications in a wide variety of fields. From playing games on your computer to performing banking transactions, Java is at the heart of everything. The book starts by unveiling the new features of Java 9 and quickly walks you through the building blocks that form the basis of writing applications. There are 10 comprehensive projects in the book that will showcase the various features of Java 9. You will learn to build an email filter that separates spam messages from all your inboxes, a social media aggregator app that will help you efficiently track various feeds, and a microservice for a client/server note application, to name a few. The book covers various libraries and frameworks in these projects, and also introduces a few more frameworks that complement and extend the Java SDK. Through the course of building applications, this book will not only help you get to grips with the various features of Java 9, but will also teach you how to design and prototype professional-grade applications with performance and security considerations.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Taking Notes with Monumentum

Summary


Now we're back to the familiar refrain--our application is finished. What have we covered in the chapter? We've created a REST API using JAX-RS that doesn't require direct JSON manipulation. We've learned how to apply request filters to JAX-RS endpoints to restrict access to authenticated users, which we authenticate against their Google accounts using Google's OAuth2 workflow. We've packaged the application using Payara Micro, a great option to develop microservices, and we've integrated MongoDB into our application using the MongoDB Java API. Finally, we built a very basic JavaScript client using Vue.js to access our application.

There are a lot of new concepts and technologies interacting in this application, which makes it interesting from a technical perspective, but there's still more that could be done. The application could use a great deal of styling, and support for embedded images and videos would be nice, as would a mobile client. There is lots of room for improvements...