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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

GruntJS


Before we conclude this chapter on progressive JavaScript programming, we will quickly take a look at a tool to launch actions. This tool is GruntJS (http://gruntjs.com/), and the people behind it describe it as the JavaScript task runner. GruntJS is a Node.js tool and works in this ecosystem. Therefore, developers must install Node.js before they can work with GruntJS.

The tool is currently a favorite with many in the digital community. The following are some of the reasons why GruntJS is seen as a bonus:

  • The configuration is in one place and can be shared among other developers, testers, and operators across your digital team.

  • GruntJS is built with a plugin system.

  • The tool compresses your CSS and minimizes your JavaScript files for performance and delivery to the product site.

  • GruntJS allows teams of dedicated interface developers to work separately or together on the client-side bits of a website. The tools then concatenate their JavaScript and CSS components together for a production...