Digital Java EE 7 Book

Hello All

This is the author Peter Pilgrim

This is the official repository for my book, Digital Java EE 7 Web Application Development which was published before the annual JavaOne 2015 in California.

You can obtain a copy of the book from Packt Publishing in hard copy and/or electronic format. HINT: Search for my name surname by Author

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This source code is Java SE 8 and therefore you will require an appropriate. If do not have JDK 8 installed, the please download Oracle JDK 8 and then install it on your system.

You will also need an Integrated Development Environment of equivalent editor. I suggest you look at IntelliJ. However Eclipse and NetBean are also good second choices.

You need also to download and install a Java EE 7 application server. This book was written with the reference implementation GlassFish 4.1. Since Java EE 7 is designed to be standard, the examples should work mostly unchanged against WildFly 9 or the upcoming Tom EE 2.0

I build source code with The Gradle build tool. So it will help to have your own copy of Gradle 2.7 or better installed on your system.

Source Code

This source code distribution can be found on GitHub after the book's publication date:

http://github.com/peterpilgrim/digital-javaee7

(The code will be uploaded simultaneously with the book's publication date ;-)

LICENSE

The entire source code and software for the book falls under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (Version 3, 29 June 2007) http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt

See the ``LICENSE.txt'' for the full legal text.

Compile the projects

Each of the chapters in the book has its own folder, and within those chapter folder there is at least one project folder with a Gradle project. You will recognize them, because they have a ``build.gradle' file inside them. This is the project build file.

Go http://gradle.org/ and download Gradle version 1.6 or better

To compile the program

    % gradle build

Explicitly to just compile the sources, run this command line:

    % gradle compileJava

To clean the project and reset to the start, run this command line:

    % gradle clean

Running unit test from Gradle

Ask Gradle to run the Unit Tests with the following comand:

% gradle test --info

Look for the results in the folder `build/reports' and view the HTML file inside a web browser or examine the XML test file. By the way all of the tests from the source code were written with JUnit.

Generating a Eclipse project

Ask Gradle to (re-)create Eclipse project artifacts .classpath'' and .project''

% gradle eclipse

Generating a IDEA Project

Ask Gradle to (re-)create IDEA project configuration files *.ipr'' and *.iml'' etc

% gradle idea

Finding out project dependencies

You can ask a gradle project about its dependencies with the following:

% gradle dependencies

And you can find out about the tasks that you can invoke with:

% gradle tasks

Building other artifacts

Some project create WAR files. Gradle plugin for WAR files bind automatically `assemble'. This also applies to EAR and RAR files. So this implies that:

% gradle assemble

Will do the right thing for certain projects. Here are some other useful Gradle tasks.

% gradle jar        // for project that builds a JAR
% gradle war        // ditto
% gradle ear        // ditto

The End.