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Digital Java EE 7 Web Application Development

By : Peter Pilgrim
Book Image

Digital Java EE 7 Web Application Development

By: Peter Pilgrim

Overview of this book

Digital Java EE 7 presents you with an opportunity to master writing great enterprise web software using the Java EE 7 platform with the modern approach to digital service standards. You will first learn about the lifecycle and phases of JavaServer Faces, become completely proficient with different validation models and schemes, and then find out exactly how to apply AJAX validations and requests. Next, you will touch base with JSF in order to understand how relevant CDI scopes work. Later, you’ll discover how to add finesse and pizzazz to your digital work in order to improve the design of your e-commerce application. Finally, you will deep dive into AngularJS development in order to keep pace with other popular choices, such as Backbone and Ember JS. By the end of this thorough guide, you’ll have polished your skills on the Digital Java EE 7 platform and be able to creat exiting web application.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Digital Java EE 7 Web Application Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The RequireJS framework


If you are serious about the organization of lots of JavaScript files and components, then you will be happy that ideas from dependency injection frameworks such as CDI and Spring have also made it in the world. Some professional organizations already rely on a small framework called RequireJS (http://requirejs.org/). The RequireJS framework is a JavaScript file and module loader. The framework has a built-in module script loader, which will improve the speed and quality of your code.

RequireJS implements the Asychronous Module Definition (AMD) specification for JavaScript (https://github.com/amdjs/amdjs-api/wiki/AMD). This specification defines a mechanism that in turn defines the modules and dependencies between modules and how they can be asynchronously loaded.

The AMD specification solves the critical issues where you have many JavaScript modules and define the multiple HTML script elements so as to load them, but then you find that each module had a dependency...