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JSON Processing in Java EE 7 1. Overview This article will show you how to process JSON using only core Java EE, without the use of third-party dependencies like Jersey or Jackson. Pretty much everything we’ll be using is provided by the javax.json package. 2. Writing an Object to JSON… Continue Reading jee7-json
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Build an MVC Web Application with Grails 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a simple web application using Grails. Grails (more precisely it’s latest major version) is a framework built on top of the Spring Boot project and uses the Apache Groovy language to develop… Continue Reading grails-mvc-application
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Embedded Jetty Server in Java 1. Overview In this article, we will be looking at the Jetty library. Jetty provides a web server that can run as an embedded container and integrates easily with the javax.servlet library. 2. Maven Dependencies To get started we’ll add Maven dependencies to jetty-server and… Continue Reading jetty-embedded
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A Guide to the JSTL Library 1. Overview JavaServer Pages Tag Library (JSTL) is a set of tags that can be used for implementing some common operations such as looping, conditional formatting, and others. In this tutorial, we’ll be discussing how to setup JSTL and how to use its numerous… Continue Reading jstl
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The Difference Between CDI and EJB Singleton 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll take a closer look at two types of singletons available in Java EE. We’ll explain and demonstrate the differences and see the usages suitable for each one. First, let’s see what singletons are all about before getting… Continue Reading jee-cdi-vs-ejb-singleton
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Introduction to the JSON Binding API (JSR 367) in Java Java EE JSON 1. Overview For a long time, there was no standard for JSON processing in Java. The most common libraries used for JSON processing are Jackson and Gson. Recently, Java EE7 came with an API for parsing and… Continue Reading java-json-binding-api
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FreeMarker Common Operations 1. Introduction FreeMarker is a template engine, written in Java, and maintained by the Apache Foundation. We can use the FreeMarker Template Language, also known as FTL, to generate many text-based formats like web pages, email, or XML files. In this tutorial, we’ll see what we can… Continue Reading freemarker-operations
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Java EE vs J2EE vs Jakarta EE 1. Introduction Ever heard of Java EE? How about Java 2EE, J2EE, or now Jakarta EE? Actually, these are all different names for the same thing: a set of enterprise specifications that extend Java SE. In this short article, we’ll describe the evolution of Java… Continue Reading java-enterprise-evolution
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Introduction to the Wicket Framework 1. Overview Wicket is a Java server-side web component-oriented framework that aims at simplifying building web interfaces by introducing patterns known from desktop UI development. With Wicket it is possible to build a web application using only Java code and XHTML compliant HTML pages. No… Continue Reading intro-to-the-wicket-framework
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Web and Application Servers for Java 1. Overview In this quick article, we’ll describe the different popular servers for Java development. 2. Web vs. Application Server We’re going to see what are the differences between a web and application servers and which Java EE specifications these support. Simply put, the… Continue Reading java-servers
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