This is the official repository for my book, Java EE 7 Developer Handbook published by Packt Publishing (1st Published on Friday 20 September 2013 ;-)
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J A V A E E 7 D E V E L O P E R H A N D B O O K
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Author: Peter A. Pilgrim Original Date: 01/October/2012 Impression Date: 31/July/2013 Email: [email protected]
This is software to go with the book with ``The Java EE 7 Developer Handbook'' written by Peter A. Pilgrim, published by Packt Publishing. (September 2013)
You can purchase a copy of the book from Packt Pub at this URL:
http://www.packtpub.com/java-ee-7-developer-handbook/book
This source code distribution can be found on GitHub after the book's publication date:
http://github.com/peterpilgrim/javaee7-developer-handbook
(The code will be uploaded simultaneously with the book's publication date ;-)
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.
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
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.
Ask Gradle to (re-)create Eclipse project artifacts .classpath'' and .project''
% gradle eclipse
Ask Gradle to (re-)create IDEA project configuration files *.ipr'' and *.iml'' etc
% gradle idea
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
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
In January 2016, I refactored the Gradle Build system for this book's distribution so it works as proper MULTI-MODULE build.
To examine the structure of the multi-modules of the entire distribution execute the following command from the root project
% gradle projects
Gradle will show you the project structure.
From the root directory, you can build the XenTracker AngularJS with the following syntax
% gradle :ch01:xentracker-angularjs:build
This also works for the sub chapter folders
% gradle :appendix01:clean
% gradle :ch07:build
More information Gradle can be found at the documentation site http://gradle.org/
There is an additional project *jms-async' in Chapter 9 that deals with asynchronous JMS examples. It requires a standalone Java SE JMS service in order to fully this code. In other words, this code example is designed to run outside of the Java EE environment and at the time of writing this code was untested though it may compile successfully.
You must explicitly include this project into the multi-module build using the Gradle Settings XML file.
In the Gradle build properties file set the custom property to true.
buildChapter9JmsAsync = true
NB: You may need to refresh or rerun your Gradle Plugin for your particular type of IDE in order to recognise the new projects.
The code projects in Chapter 11 (jpa-criteria, jpa-entity-graph etc) requires a managed GlassFish or Payara application server is order to execute correctly. See the instructions in this folder ch11
Please examine Gradle settings configuration file in order to understand how the conditionally module inclusion works.
In the Gradle build properties file set the custom property to true.
buildChapter11JpaAll = true
NB: You may need to refresh or rerun your Gradle Plugin for your particular type of IDE in order to recognise the new projects.
Define an environment variable called GLASSFISH_HOME.
On a Windows environment, you may define it with a value like so:
GLASSFISH_HOME=C:\opt\payara-4.1.1.154
On a UNIX, Linux or Mac OS X environment, you might define this as:*
export GLASSFISH_HOME=/Library/opt/payara-4.1.1.154/
*In the latter stanza, I assume that you are using the Bourne Again Shell (BASH)
All the best. Peter Pilgrim, 2013-2016
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