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Digital Java EE 7 Web Application Development

By : Peter Pilgrim
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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


In this long chapter, we covered client-side AngularJS development with a caseworker application. We learned how the AngularJS framework manipulates the DOM and how it provides the binding between the data and the rendering of the elements using the MVC. We also learned some AngularJS concepts like scopes, modules, controllers, and factories.

Using the study example, we illustrated how AngularJS communicates to a remote server using RESTful service invocations from the client side. We also studied the WebSocket interaction briefly. On the client side of JavaScript, we went through the entire CRUD idiom in the caseworker application.

On the server side, we saw the implementation of the RESTful services with JAX-RS, which covered the four standard HTTP method requests. We also learnt about the Java WebSocket implementation.

AngularJS fits the mode of applications that single page applications need. However, this may or may not be appropriate to your business requirements. Adopting AngularJS...