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Mastering Java EE Development with WildFly

By : Luca Stancapiano
Book Image

Mastering Java EE Development with WildFly

By: Luca Stancapiano

Overview of this book

Packed with rich assets and APIs, Wildfly 10 allows you to create state-of-the-art Java applications. This book will help you take your understanding of Java EE to the next level by creating distributed Java applications using Wildfly. The book begins by showing how to get started with a native installation of WildFly and it ends with a cloud installation. After setting up the development environment, you will implement and work with different WildFly features, such as implementing JavaServer Pages. You will also learn how you can use clustering so that your apps can handle a high volume of data traffic. You will also work with enterprise JavaBeans, solve issues related to failover, and implement Java Message Service integration. Moving ahead, you will be working with Java Naming and Directory Interface, Java Transaction API, and use ActiveMQ for message relay and message querying. This book will also show you how you can use your existing backend JavaScript code in your application. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge to implement the latest Wildfly features in your Java applications.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
5
Working with Distributed Transactions
16
WildFly in Cloud

Working with Servlets and JSP

The web is a fundamental part of a Java application server. The main component representing the web in Java is the servlet. Servlet is the oldest component present since the first version of enterprise Java.

A servlet is a web component managed by a container, which generates dynamic web content.
The servlet can be considered as a communication point between a Java server and a web page that can be retrieved from an HTTP browser.
With the subsequent versions of Java EE, in view of the needs and the development of the web and web components and following the growth of the Java language, the mentioned arguments have increased and improved:

  • An improved way to develop components thanks to more and more use of annotations, allowing you to write applications with less and less code.
  • From Java EE 6 onward, the asynchronous part of the web was introduced...