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Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE

You're reading from   Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE Develop, test, and troubleshoot enterprise applications and microservices with Kotlin and Java EE

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788997270
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Raghavendra Rao K Raghavendra Rao K
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Preface 1. Kotlin – A First look FREE CHAPTER 2. Kotlin – The Game Changer 3. An Overview of Java EE and Kotlin 4. Kotlin with JSF and CDI 5. Kotlin with JPA and EJB 6. Enterprise Messaging with Kotlin 7. Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 8. Securing JAVA EE Applications with Kotlin 9. Implementing Microservices with Kotlin 10. Performance Monitoring and Logging 11. Design Patterns with Kotlin 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Kotlin and CDI

The IoC and dependency injection patterns are very important design principles that decouple the code from dependent objects. If we have two objects that are related to each other, one might be dependent on the other. The idea of the IoC and dependency injection patterns is to decouple this dependency so that the two objects are not tied to one another.

The Java frameworks that implement the IoC principle are Seam and Spring. Seam is a set of utilities used for web development that was integrated in the Java EE specification in order to provide dependency injection. Spring has implemented IoC and is represented by the Spring IoC container (ApplicationContext). The Spring container is responsible for instantiating, configuring, and assembling the required objects, which are known as beans. The Spring container manages the life cycle of the beans.

CDI is the central...

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