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Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788293037

Length 382 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Java EE

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Edson Yanaga

Elder Moraes

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Running your first MVC 1.0 code

If you are following the news about Java EE 8, you may now be wondering: why is MVC 1.0 here if it was dropped from the Java EE 8 umbrella?

Yes, it is true. MVC 1.0 doesn't belong (anymore) to the Java EE 8 release. But it didn't reduce the importance of this great API and I'm sure it will change the way some other APIs work in future releases (for example, JSF).

So why not cover it here? You will use it anyway.

This recipe will show you how to use a Controller (the C) to inject a Model (the M) into the View (the V). It also brings some CDI and JAX-RS to the party.

Getting ready

Add the proper dependencies to your project:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax</groupId>
            <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
            <version>8.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.mvc</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.mvc-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.0-pr</version>
        </dependency>

How to do it...

Start by creating a root for your JAX-RS endpoints:

@ApplicationPath("webresources")
public class AppConfig extends Application{
}

Create a User class (this will be your MODEL):

public class User {

    private String name;
    private String email;

    public User(String name, String email) {
        this.name = name;
        this.email = email;
    }

    //DON'T FORGET THE GETTERS AND SETTERS
    //THIS RECIPE WON'T WORK WITHOUT THEM
}

Now, create a Session Bean, which will be injected later in your Controller:

@Stateless
public class UserBean {
    
    public User getUser(){
        return new User("Elder", "elder@eldermoraes.com");
    }
}

Then, create the Controller:

@Controller
@Path("userController")
public class UserController {
    
    @Inject
    Models models;
    
    @Inject
    UserBean userBean;
    
    @GET
    public String user(){
        models.put("user", userBean.getUser());
        return "/user.jsp";
    }
}

And finally, the web page (the View):

<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 
    charset=UTF-8">
    <title>User MVC</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>${user.name}/${user.email}</h1>
</body>

Run it on a Java EE 8 server and access this URL:

http://localhost:8080/ch01-mvc/webresources/userController

How it works...

The main actor in this whole scenario is the Models class injected into the Controller:

@Inject
Models models;

It's a class from MVC 1.0 API that owns the responsibility, in this recipe, of letting the User object be available for the View layer. It's injected (using CDI) and uses another injected bean, userBean, to do it: