Java EE 7 First Look -- Table of Contents -- Java EE 7 First Look -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. What's New in Java EE 7 -- A brief history of Java EE -- The main goals of Java EE 7 -- Productivity -- HTML5 support -- Novelties of Java EE 7 -- Summary -- 2. New Specifications -- Concurrency Utilities for Java EE 1.0 -- Why concurrency? -- Benefits of concurrency -- Risks of concurrency -- Concurrency and Java EE -- Java EE Concurrency API -- Batch Applications for Java Platform 1.0 -- What is batch processing? -- Why a dedicated API for batch processing? -- Understanding the Batch API -- JobRepository -- Job -- Step -- Chunk -- Batchlet -- The batch.xml configuration file -- JobOperator -- Java API for JSON Processing 1.0 -- What is JSON? -- Object -- Array -- Value -- Why JSON? -- Java API for JSON processing -- The streaming API -- The object model API -- Java API for WebSocket 1.0 -- What is WebSocket? -- Why WebSocket? -- The WebSocket API -- Server endpoint -- Client endpoint -- Summary -- 3. The Presentation Layer -- Servlet 3.1 -- What is a Servlet? -- A login page with a Servlet -- Latest improvements of Servlet 3.1 in action -- Non blocking I/O API -- Protocol upgrade processing -- Expression Language 3.0 -- What is Expression Language? -- The latest improvements of EL 3.0 in action -- API for standalone environments -- Lambda expressions -- Collection object support -- Collection object construction -- Collection operations -- String concatenation operator (+=).

Assignment operator (=) -- Semi-colon operator ( -- ) -- Static fields and methods -- JavaServer Faces 2.2 -- What is JavaServer Faces? -- An identification page with JSF -- The latest improvements of JSF 2.2 in action -- HTML5-friendly markup -- Pass-through attributes -- Pass-through elements -- Resource Library Contracts -- Faces Flow -- Stateless views -- Summary -- 4. The Java Persistence API -- Java Persistence API 2.1 -- JPA (Java Persistence API) -- JPA in action -- The latest improvements of JPA 2.1 in action -- Persistence context synchronization -- Entity -- New annotations -- Entity graphs -- Static or named entity graphs -- Dynamic entity graphs -- JPQL -- Support for stored procedures -- New reserved identifiers -- Support for creating named queries at runtime -- The Criteria API -- Support for bulk update/delete -- Support for new reserved identifiers -- DDL generation -- Java Transaction API 1.2 -- The Java Transaction API -- JTA in action -- Innovations introduced by JTA 1.2 -- Summary -- 5. The Business Layer -- Enterprise JavaBeans 3.2 -- Pruning some features -- The latest improvements in EJB 3.2 -- Session bean enhancement -- EJB Lite improvements -- Changes made to the TimerService API -- Harmonizing with JMS's novelties -- Other improvements -- Putting it all together -- Presenting the project -- Use Case Diagram (UCD) -- Class diagram -- Component diagram -- Summary -- 6. Communicating with External Systems -- JavaMail -- Sending e-mails in Java -- Sending an e-mail via the SMTP protocol -- The latest improvements in action -- The added annotations -- The added methods -- The changing of some access modifiers -- Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) -- What is JCA? -- JCA in action -- Latest improvements -- Java Message Service (JMS) -- When to use JMS -- The latest improvements in action -- New features.

Sending messages asynchronously -- Delivery delay -- Handling of the JMSXDeliveryCount message property -- Simplification of the API -- Java API for RESTful Web Services -- When to use Web Services -- JAX-RS in action -- The latest improvements in action -- The Client API -- Asynchronous processing -- Filters and entity interceptors -- Filters -- Entity interceptors -- Summary -- 7. Annotations and CDI -- Common annotations for the Java platform -- The goal of this specification -- Building your own annotation -- Latest improvements in action -- The new annotation -- Contexts and Dependency Injection -- What is CDI ? -- Example 1 - instantiation of a POJO -- Example 2 - accessing an EJB from a JSF page -- Example 3 - setting a bean with a specific scope for simple operations -- Example 4 - use of objects usually created by a factory -- Latest improvements in action -- Avoiding CDI processing on a bean -- Accessing the non contexual instance of a bean -- Accessing the current CDI container -- Destroying CDI bean instances explicitly -- Summary -- 8. Validators and Interceptors -- Bean Validation -- Validating your data -- Building a custom constraint -- Creating a constraint annotation -- Implementing a validator -- Latest improvements in action -- Openness -- Support for dependency injection and CDI integration -- Support for method and constructor validation -- Support for group conversion -- Support message interpolation using expression language -- Interceptors -- Intercepting some processes -- Defining interceptors in the target class -- Defining interceptors in an interceptor class -- Latest improvements in action -- Intercept constructor invocation -- Associating an interceptor with a class using interceptor binding -- Creation of interceptor binding types -- Declaring interceptor binding.

Binding an interceptor by using interceptor binding type -- Defining the execution order of interceptors -- Summary -- 9. Security -- JASPIC 1.1 -- Secure access to forms -- Implementing an authentication module -- Implementing the ServerAuthModule interface -- Installing and configuring the authentication module -- Binding the authentication module to a web application -- Creating a realm -- Security configuration -- The latest improvements in action -- Integrating the authenticate, login, and logout methods called -- Standardizing access to the application context identifier -- Support for forward and include mechanisms -- Summary -- Index.