What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with WildFly, is an introduction to the Java EE platform and new Java EE 7 version specifications. It also focuses on presenting WildFly's new features, the developer environment setup, and basic server management.

Chapter 2, Your First Java EE Application on WildFly, describes the basics of the WildFly server usage, presenting information required to deploy your first application.

Chapter 3, Introducing Java EE 7 – EJBs, introduces Java EE business objects called Enterprise Java Beans. In this chapter, we create the foundations of the ticket booking application.

Chapter 4, Learning Context and Dependency Injection, covers the CDI technology that connects the building blocks of your applications.

Chapter 5, Combining Persistence with CDI, is a look into the database world and object mapping in Java EE.

Chapter 6, Developing Applications with JBoss JMS Provider, is a dive into HornetQ and enterprise system integration using JCA.

Chapter 7, Adding Web Services to Your Applications, discusses not only the old-style SOAP web services but also the modern and popular approach based on JAX-RS (REST). We'll also take a look at how to integrate a Java EE 7 backend with an AngularJS browser application.

Chapter 8, Adding WebSockets, introduces a completely new asset to the Java EE 7 platform: WebSockets. We will look at them in our sample AngularJS application.

Chapter 9, Managing the Application Server, discusses WildFly management features.

Chapter 10, Securing WildFly Applications, focuses on security-related aspects of the server and your application.

Chapter 11, Clustering WildFly Applications, discusses making Java EE applications highly available and scalable.

Chapter 12, Long-term Tasks' Execution, describes the new area of enterprise Java batch applications and concurrency management on the server.

Chapter 13, Testing Your Applications, demonstrates how we can write integration tests for for our applications using Arquillian after covering the most important Java EE technologies.

Appendix, Rapid Development Using JBoss Forge, covers the JBoss Forge tool. It shows how you can use this application to speed up your work with its code generation features on starting Java EE-based projects.