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Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835085264

Length 316 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Jakarta EE

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

David R. Heffelfinger

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Introduction to Jakarta EE FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 2: Contexts and Dependency Injection

3. Chapter 3: Jakarta RESTful Web Services

4. Chapter 4: JSON Processing and JSON Binding

5. Chapter 5: Microservices Development with Jakarta EE

6. Chapter 6: Jakarta Faces

7. Chapter 7: Additional Jakarta Faces Features

8. Chapter 8: Object Relational Mapping with Jakarta Persistence

9. Chapter 9: WebSockets

10. Chapter 10: Securing Jakarta EE Applications

11. Chapter 11: Servlet Development and Deployment

12. Chapter 12: Jakarta Enterprise Beans

13. Chapter 13: Jakarta Messaging

14. Chapter 14: Web Services with Jakarta XML Web Services

15. Chapter 15: Putting it All Together

16. Index

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