July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
116 pages
2h 41m
English
Content preview from Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8
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What's new in Java EE 8?
In this section, we're going to take a look at the different APIs of Java EE 8 and the latest advances, with a focus on the more microservice-relevant APIs. We're going to look at JSR 370, which is JAX-RS 2.1; JSR 367, which is the JSON Binding; and also JSR 374, which is the Java API for JSON Processing.
We saw the different APIs in Java EE 8 in the Overview of Java EE 8 section. The ones in blue are the ones that have been added or revamped. We see that CDI is been bumped to version 2.0, mainly focusing on asynchronous events, and the Servlet API has been bumped to version 4.0, adding HTTP2 support. JSF 2.3, which is an API to build server-side UIs, the old JSF bean-managed model, has been removed and it's fully ...