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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)

Kotlin and CDI

The IoC and dependency injection patterns are very important design principles that decouple the code from dependent objects. If we have two objects that are related to each other, one might be dependent on the other. The idea of the IoC and dependency injection patterns is to decouple this dependency so that the two objects are not tied to one another.

The Java frameworks that implement the IoC principle are Seam and Spring. Seam is a set of utilities used for web development that was integrated in the Java EE specification in order to provide dependency injection. Spring has implemented IoC and is represented by the Spring IoC container (ApplicationContext). The Spring container is responsible for instantiating, configuring, and assembling the required objects, which are known as beans. The Spring container manages the life cycle of the beans.

CDI is the central...