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Jakarta EE Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Elder Moraes
Book Image

Jakarta EE Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Elder Moraes

Overview of this book

Jakarta EE is widely used around the world for developing enterprise applications for a variety of domains. With this book, Java professionals will be able to enhance their skills to deliver powerful enterprise solutions using practical recipes. This second edition of the Jakarta EE Cookbook takes you through the improvements introduced in its latest version and helps you get hands-on with its significant APIs and features used for server-side development. You'll use Jakarta EE for creating RESTful web services and web applications with the JAX-RS, JSON-P, and JSON-B APIs and learn how you can improve the security of your enterprise solutions. Not only will you learn how to use the most important servers on the market, but you'll also learn to make the best of what they have to offer for your project. From an architectural point of view, this Jakarta book covers microservices, cloud computing, and containers. It allows you to explore all the tools for building reactive applications using Jakarta EE and core Java features such as lambdas. Finally, you'll discover how professionals can improve their projects by engaging with and contributing to the community. By the end of this book, you'll have become proficient in developing and deploying enterprise applications using Jakarta EE.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Protecting data confidentiality and integrity with SSL/TLS

Security also means protecting your data when it's being transported. For this purpose, we can use a popular method called the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the newest version of SSL. SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 are the protocols supported by Eclipse GlassFish 5.

This recipe will show you how to enable Eclipse GlassFish so that it works properly with SSL. All Jakarta EE servers have their own way of doing this.

Getting ready

To enable SSL in GlassFish, you need to configure an HTTP listener for SSL. All you need to do is this:

  1. Make sure GlassFish is up and running.
  2. Use the create-ssl command to create your HTTP listener for SSL.
  3. Restart...