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Mastering Java EE Development with WildFly

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287174
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luca Stancapiano Luca Stancapiano
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Preface 1. Introducing Java EE and Configuring the Development Environment 2. Working with Dependency Injection FREE CHAPTER 3. Persistence 4. Implementing Business Logic 5. Working with Distributed Transactions 6. Creating REST Services 7. Implementing WebSockets 8. Working with Messaging 9. Implementing a Mail Client 10. Asynchronous REST 11. Asynchronous EJB 12. Batches and Workflows 13. Working with Servlets and JSP 14. Writing a JSF Application 15. Sharing the Web Sessions 16. WildFly in Cloud 17. Share your Data 18. Deployment 19. Working with OSGi

Protocol handler

In Chapter 7, Implementing WebSockets, in the Negotiated subprotocols section, we introduced the multiprotocol function. With this function, we can establish what protocol to use for the client-server communication, and even use of a custom protocol to use in secure system, for example.
Servlets 3.1 introduce the javax.servlet.http.HttpUpgradeHandler interface. This interface encapsulates the upgrade protocol processing. The upgrade protocol allows us to switch from the HTTP base protocol to another new protocol.
In the following example, we will call a servlet accepting an header, and it will upgrade the current HTTP base protocol to a custom echo protocol. This is the servlet implementation:

@WebServlet(urlPatterns = { "/UpgradeServlet" })
public class UpgradeServlet extends HttpServlet {
...
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse...
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