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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)

Services

Another fundamental aspect of Angular is a service. These can be thought of as a class that is responsible for some processing or data fetching logic. A component uses a service class to delegate the responsibility of fetching data over HTTP or other processing, which keeps the component code clean. Components can be injected with the services they need using dependency injection. The injection is done using the components constructor which references the service class. Angular obtains the service from an injector, which maintains the already created service instances and returns a new one if it doesn't exist. Here's the constructor of DashboardComponent class, which can be rewritten to use DashboardService:

constructor(private service: DashboardService) { }

//Use lifecyle-hook ngOnInit to perform complex fetch operation
ngOnInit(): void {
this.stats = this...