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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)

Selecting design patterns

Design patterns are intended to solve common design problems. These patterns provide guidelines for solving a design issue, and their techniques are proven to work. There are 23 original patterns, categorized into creational, structural, and behavioral patterns. Different design patterns exist for different types of known design issue. In this chapter, we discussed some commonly-used patterns in enterprise applications.

Design patterns introduce transparency and clarity to the system's design, and provide reusable constructs that help to build a better enterprise system. Selecting a design pattern from the set of patterns is important for solving a design issue that we are trying to solve.

The first thing that we need to do before selecting a pattern is to understand the problem and see whether it is related to object creation, or its behaviors,...