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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

Summary


This chapter was a whirlwind tour of the modern digital JavaScript programming. If you have not worked with the JavaScript language at all or left it far behind for several years, then I do hope that you have been invigorated to learn this essential skill. We looked at the programming of the JavaScript objects. We saw how to construct the objects. We learned about the property notations and dealt with the JavaScript truth.

We paid a particular respectable visit to jQuery—the grandmother or granddaddy of the JavaScript programming. If you learned nothing else, then you can now understand jQuery. We saw how the selectors can search HTML DOM for the elements, which can then be manipulated for effect. We made a brief foray into animation, which opened the door to the creation of more sophisticated experiences for the customers and business owners.

We ventured into dependency management of the modules with RequireJS. We learned how this framework can help a digital developer to organize...