You're reading from Designing Hexagonal Architecture with Java An architect's guide to building maintainable and change-tolerant applications with Java and Quarkus

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801816489

Length 460 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Quarkus

Concepts

Software Architecture

Author (1):

Davi Vieira

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Architecture Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Why Hexagonal Architecture? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Wrapping Business Rules inside Domain Hexagon

4. Chapter 3: Handling Behavior with Ports and Use Cases

5. Chapter 4: Creating Adapters to Interact with the Outside World

6. Chapter 5: Exploring the Nature of Driving and Driven Operations

7. Section 2: Using Hexagons to Create a Solid Foundation

8. Chapter 6: Building the Domain Hexagon

9. Chapter 7: Building the Application Hexagon

10. Chapter 8: Building the Framework Hexagon

11. Chapter 9: Applying Dependency Inversion with Java Modules

12. Section 3: Becoming Cloud-Native

13. Chapter 10: Adding Quarkus to a Modularized Hexagonal Application

14. Chapter 11: Leveraging CDI Beans to Manage Ports and Use Cases

15. Chapter 12: Using RESTEasy Reactive to Implement Input Adapters

16. Chapter 13: Persisting Data with Output Adapters and Hibernate Reactive

17. Chapter 14: Setting Up Dockerfile and Kubernetes Objects for Cloud Deployment

18. Chapter 15: Good Design Practices for Your Hexagonal Application

19. Assessments

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