Java EE is an Enterprise Java standard, applications written to comply with the Java EE specification do not tie developers to a specific vendor, instead, they can be deployed to any Java EE compliant application server. With this book, you’ll have all the tools and techniques you need to build robust and scalable applications in Java EE 8.This book covers all the major Java EE 8 APIs including JSF 2.3, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI), the Java API for WebSockets, JAX-RS 2.1, Servlet 4.0 and more.

This book begins by introducing you to Java EE 8 application development and then goes on to cover all major Java EE 8 APIs. It focuses on going beyond the basics to develop Java EE applications that can be deployed to any Java EE 8 compliant application server.

The book also introduces JSON-P and JSON-B, the Java APIs for JSON Processing and the Java API for JSON Binding. These advanced topics further dive deep into explaining how the two APIs are used to process JSON function, namely the Model API and the Streaming API.

The book also covers additional Java EE APIs, such as the Java API for Websocket and the Java Message Service (JMS), which allows loosely coupled, asynchronous communication. Further, you will also learn ways to secure Java EE applications by taking advantage of the new Java EE Security API.

Finally, you will learn more about the RESTful web service development using the latest JAX-RS 2.1 specification. You will also learn techniques to make use of micro profile to build scalable, cloud-ready microservices in Java EE.