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Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE

By : Raghavendra Rao K
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Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE

By: Raghavendra Rao K

Overview of this book

Kotlin was developed with a view to solving programmers’ difficulties and operational challenges. This book guides you in making Kotlin and Java EE work in unison to build enterprise-grade applications. Together, they can be used to create services of any size with just a few lines of code and let you focus on the business logic. Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE begins with a brief tour of Kotlin and helps you understand what makes it a popular and reasonable choice of programming language for application development, followed by its incorporation in the Java EE platform. We will then learn how to build applications using the Java Persistence API (JPA) and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), as well as develop RESTful web services and MicroServices. As we work our way through the chapters, we’ll use various performance improvement and monitoring tools for your application and see how they optimize real-world applications. At each step along the way, we will see how easy it is to develop enterprise applications in Kotlin. By the end of this book, we will have learned design patterns and how to implement them using Kotlin.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Design patterns

Let's understand what design patterns are and how they will help us to design and develop applications or services.

Design patterns are a way of structuring code to solve commonly-occurring problems in designing software solutions. These are solutions to design problems that are common in the course of software design, unleashing the profundity of experiences to solve common problems of software development. The aim here is to use patterns to solve these problems in a more structured and elegant manner.

Software design or application design tends to change over the time. Any system has to be flexible for any change in the code. A change in the requirements, a new feature request, a defect fix, or a refactoring may require us to restructure the code. When a new piece of code is developed, it has to be gently integrated into the system. Existing code can be...