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Jakarta EE Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Elder Moraes
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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)

Reducing Coding Effort by Relying on Standards

One of the most important things that you need to know about Jakarta EE is that it is a standard, formerly managed by the Java Community Process (JCP) and now managed by the Eclipse Foundation.

A standard... for what? Well, for an application server! A Jakarta EE application server, for instance. This means that you can develop your Jakarta EE application knowing it will run in an environment that provides a bunch of resources that you can rely on. It also means you can easily move from one application server to another, as long as you stick to the Jakarta EE patterns instead of some vendor-specific feature (which is considered bad practice). Your application should have the same behavior no matter what Jakarta EE-compatible server you are using.

Beyond being a standard, Jakarta EE is also a certification. For a Jakarta EE server...