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Architecting Modern Java EE Applications

By : Daschner
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Architecting Modern Java EE Applications

By: Daschner

Overview of this book

Java EE 8 brings with it a load of features, mainly targeting newer architectures such as microservices, modernized security APIs, and cloud deployments. This book will teach you to design and develop modern, business-oriented applications using Java EE 8. It shows how to structure systems and applications, and how design patterns and Domain Driven Design aspects are realized in the age of Java EE 8. You will learn about the concepts and principles behind Java EE applications, and how to effect communication, persistence, technical and cross-cutting concerns, and asynchronous behavior. This book covers Continuous Delivery, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, containers, container orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, and why and especially how Java EE fits into this world. It also covers the requirements behind containerized, zero-dependency applications and how modern Java EE application servers support these approaches. You will also learn about automated, fast, and reliable software tests, in different test levels, scopes, and test technologies. This book covers the prerequisites and challenges of distributed systems that lead to microservice, shared-nothing architectures. The challenges and solutions of consistency versus scalability will further lead us to event sourcing, event-driven architectures, and the CQRS principle. This book also includes the nuts and bolts of application performance as well as how to realize resilience, logging, monitoring and tracing in a modern enterprise world. Last but not least the demands of securing enterprise systems are covered. By the end, you will understand the ins and outs of Java EE so that you can make critical design decisions that not only live up to, but also surpass your clients' expectations.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Appendix: Links and further resources

Realizing development workflows


Continuous Delivery pipelines consist of several pipeline build steps that are executed in sequence or in parallel, respectively. All the steps are executed as part of a single build. Builds are usually triggered by committing or rather pushing code changes into version control.

The following examines the aspects of a Continuous Delivery pipeline. These general steps are indifferent to the used technology.

The following diagram shows a high-level overview of a simplified Continuous Delivery pipeline. The steps are executed in a Continuous Integration server and use external repositories such as version control, artifact, and container repositories:

Version control everything

Developers agree that source code should be kept under version control. Distributed version controls such as Git have been widely accepted as state-of-the-art tools. However, as mentioned earlier, besides application source code, there are more assets to track.

The motivation behind infrastructure...