What this book covers
Chapter 1, Digital Java EE 7, introduces the topic of the enterprise Java platform with a perspective to web technology. We will see a brief JSF example, study the JavaScript module pattern, and examine the Java EE modern web architecture.
Chapter 2, JavaServer Faces Lifecycle, starts with the essential elements of the JSF framework. We will learn about the JSF phases and the lifecycle, custom tags, common attributes, and expression language.
Chapter 3, Building JSF Forms, gets us started with how to build the JSF Create-Update-Retrieve-Delete application forms. We will build the forms in a modern web method with JSF custom tags around the Bootstrap HTML5 framework.
Chapter 4, JSF Validation and AJAX, dives deep into the validation of the customer's data from the input form. We will study the various ways of checking the data from the backend and the persistence layer to the frontend with client-side AJAX.
Chapter 5, Conversations and Journeys, expands our JSF knowledge into the conversational scoped beans. We will learn how to map a digital customer's journey to a controller and apply other CDI scopes to our work.
Chapter 6, Faces Flows with Finesse, covers the JSF 2.2 release key highlight of the flow scope bean. We will grasp the differences between the Faces Flows and conversational scope beans, and along the way, add user-friendly features to our application.
Chapter 7, Progressive JavaScript Frameworks and Modules, provides you with a quick overview of modern JavaScript programming from a Java engineer's point of view. We will get up to speed with jQuery and other relevant frameworks such as RequireJS and UnderscoreJS.
Chapter 8, AngularJS and Java RESTful Services, builds on our new JavaScript knowledge. We will approach the writing of single page architecture applications with the popular AngularJS framework. We will also gain experience of writing the JAX-RS service endpoints.
Chapter 9, Java EE MVC Framework, takes a look under the hood of the upcoming Java EE 8 Model-View-Controller framework. We will utilize the port of the Handlebars templating framework in Java.
Appendix A, JSF with HTML5, Resources, and Faces Flows, provides references for using HTML5 support in JSF, Resource Library Contracts, and programmatic Faces Flows. It also includes important information on internationalization with the message and resource bundles.
Appendix B, From Request to Response, provides intense reference material on the architecture of the modern Java enterprise application. It answers the question about what happens when a web request is received and eventually when a response is sent back to the client.
Appendix C, Agile Performance – Working inside Digital Teams, covers the gamut of personalities and the variety of roles in modern digital and agile software development teams.
Appendix D, Curated References, is a set of specially selected bibliographic references, resources and links for further study.
