Java EE 8 and Angular

Fat JAR approach

The idea of creating a Fat JAR (all-inclusive JAR), is to allow us to have a single deployable unit that has all the application and runtime code in it. Thus, instead of deploying your application to an application server, you bundle everything needed to run your application into a JAR file, which includes an embedded server. This single artifact can then be promoted through your various environments, such as the test stage, till production.

Here’s the logical view for a Fat JAR based deployment with bundled server runtime/libs:

There already exist new frameworks that make it fairly easy to get started with microservices. ...