Chapter 25. Taking Notes with Monumentum

For our eighth project, we will again do something new--we'll build a web app. Whereas all of our other projects have been command lines, GUIs, or some combination thereof, this project will be a single module consisting of a REST API and a JavaScript frontend, all built with an eye toward the current microservice trend.

To build the application, you'll learn about the following topics:

• Some of the Java options to build microservice applications
• Payara Micro and microprofile.io
• Java API for RESTful Web Services
• Document data stores and MongoDB
• OAuth authentication (against Google, specifically)
• JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

As you can see, this will be, in many ways, a much different type of project than what we've looked at to this point.