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JBoss: Developer's Guide

By : Elvadas Nono Woguia
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JBoss: Developer's Guide

By: Elvadas Nono Woguia

Overview of this book

Have you often wondered what is the best JBoss product to solve a specific problem? Do you want to get started with a specific JBoss product and know how to integrate different JBoss products in your IT Systems? Then this is the book for you. Through hands-on examples from the business world, this guide presents details on the major products and how you can build your own Enterprise services around the JBoss ecosystem. Starting with an introduction to the JBoss ecosystem, you will gradually move on to developing and deploying clustered application on JBoss Application Server, and setting up high availability using undertow or HA proxy loadbalancers. As you are moving to a micro service archicture, you will be taught how to package existing Java EE applications as micro service using Swarm or create your new micro services from scratch by coupling most popular Java EE frameworks like JPA, CDI with Undertow handlers. Next, you will install and configure JBoss Data grid in development and production environments, develop cache based applications and aggregate various data source in JBoss data virtualization. You will learn to build, deploy, and monitor integration scenarios using JBoss Fuse and run both producers/consumers applications relying on JBoss AMQ. Finally, you will learn to develop and run business workflows and make better decisions in your applications using Drools and Jboss BPM Suite Platform.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

The JBoss BRMS application helps users to solve problems in a declarative manner with business rules. In this chapter, we presented the major differences between declarative and imperative programming. Imperative programming models define and reuse the control flow and the runtime engine is instructed step by step how to solve a problem; while in the declarative programming model users tell the runtime engine how to solve the problem. JBoss BRMS helps users organize, author, and maintain business rules. We covered a step-by-step BRMS installation, rule authoring, and testing. We implemented various business rules, including a decision table. We exposed a real-time decision server to serve money transfer fees on a REST interface using pricing rules defined by a decision table. We concluded the chapter by looking at complex event processing with a fraud detection example...