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Java EE 8 and Angular

By : Prashant Padmanabhan
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Java EE 8 and Angular

By: Prashant Padmanabhan

Overview of this book

The demand for modern and high performing web enterprise applications is growing rapidly. No more is a basic HTML frontend enough to meet customer demands. This book will be your one-stop guide to build outstanding enterprise web applications with Java EE and Angular. It will teach you how to harness the power of Java EE to build sturdy backends while applying Angular on the frontend. Your journey to building modern web enterprise applications starts here! The book starts with a brief introduction to the fundamentals of Java EE and all the new APIs offered in the latest release. Armed with the knowledge of Java EE 8, you will go over what it's like to build an end-to-end application, configure database connection for JPA, and build scalable microservices using RESTful APIs running in Docker containers. Taking advantage of the Payara Micro capabilities, you will build an Issue Management System, which will have various features exposed as services using the Java EE backend. With a detailed coverage of Angular fundamentals, the book will expand the Issue Management System by building a modern single page application frontend. Moving forward, you will learn to fit both the pieces together, that is, the frontend Angular application with the backend Java EE microservices. As each unit in a microservice promotes high cohesion, you will learn different ways in which independent units can be tested efficiently. Finishing off with concepts on securing your enterprise applications, this book is a handson guide for building modern web applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

JSON processing

JSON-P provides the ability for parsing, generating, querying, and transforming JSON documents in Java. The API allows producing and consuming JSON text in a streaming manner as well as a Java object model. Java EE 7 introduced the JSON-P specification for working with JSON documents. Java EE 8 is taking this a step further to keep it updated with the newer RFC standards by updating the version to JSON-P 1.1. With this, we have new features, such as:

  • JSON Pointer: RFC 6901
  • JSON Patch: RFC 6902
  • JSON Merge Patch: RFC 7386/7396

To work with JSON, you can use any JEE 8 compliant server which provides the json-api 1.1, a corresponding maven dependency specific to JSON API, shown as follows:


javax.json
javax.json-api
<version>1.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

With the API dependency set, you can write JSON processing...