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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

Implementing a Mail Client

In this chapter, we will see how to send an email using a simple test SMTP server and a Gmail SMTP protocol in Java; we will use JavaMail API v1.5.2. It is a very robust solution available in the market.

The JavaMail API provides a platform-independent and protocol-independent framework to build mail and messaging applications. Generally, implementing a mail session in a compliant Java EE Application server is very simple because Java EE provides all the required classes to create an SMTP client and send messages.

The JavaMail API is also available as an optional package for use with the Java SE platform. The JavaMail 1.5.2 release contains several bug fixes and enhancements. In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • How to configure the mail server in WildFly
  • How to send mails in and out of our enterprise components
  • How to test the reception of...