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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

The caseworker application


For this chapter, we are going to look at one particular type of single-page application for international governments called a caseworker system. The business users of the caseworkers will sit on desks, and for the majority of their day, process applicants through stages of applying for a product.

The following is a screenshot of the application:

Screenshot of the caseworker application, xen national force

The application is called xen-national-force, and it is designed to process passports through a miniature workflow. It is far from serving the requirements of a true business application. For example, there is no user input security implemented in order to keep things as simple as possible. It works very well for only one caseworker and there is a very obvious design flaw from the user-experience side. However, the xen-national-force application demonstrates how to build a system having master-detail records with CRUD operations using AngularJS, and it features...