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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)

Understanding Apache TomEE

If you have already used Apache Tomcat, you can consider yourself ready to use Apache TomEE. It is based on the Tomcat's core and implements the Jakarta EE specs.

Getting ready

You need to download Apache TomEE to your environment. To download it, just visit http://tomee.apache.org/downloads.html. This recipe is based on TomEE 8.0.0-M2.

Wherever possible, we will focus on doing tasks using the configuration files.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. Deploy EAR, WAR, and JAR files—for EAR (short for Enterprise Application aRchive...