Java EE 8 Design Patterns and Best Practices

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "It is also important to bear in mind that the @Electronic qualifier identifies the decorated object."

A block of code is set as follows:

public interface Engineering {  List<String> getDisciplines ();}public class BasicEngineering implements Engineering {  @Override  public List<String> getDisciplines() {    return Arrays.asList("d7", "d3");  }}@Electronicpublic class ElectronicEngineering extends BasicEngineering {   ...  }@Mechanicalpublic class MechanicalEngineering extends BasicEngineering ...