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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

Modeling business processes can help analysts detect imperfections in their daily business applications. JBoss Business Suite offers a large panel of features for process modeling, execution, monitoring, and simulation. In this chapter, we progressively modeled a subset of a withdrawal complex business process, and various objects were created: data objects to hold user inputs and data transferred objects between tasks and activities. We implemented a set of business rules to handle validations and surface controls on user inputs, assign a specific rule flow group to the Drools rules, and activate a specific set of rules in a business rule task. The validation process includes a custom manual task to welcome a customer and a human task, on which we created associated forms using the BPM suite modeler. We learned how to exchange data between process tasks, and also learned...