Chapter 1, New Features and Improvements, explains the main changes to the Java EE 8 specification and what the reader can do with them. It also shows the new features and briefly explores the benefits of them. All these topics are supported by code examples.
Chapter 2, Server-Side Development, deep dives into the most important APIs and most commonly used features for server-side development. The readers here will go through real recipes for solving real problems.
Chapter 3, Building Powerful Services with JSON and RESTful Features, creates web services for different enterprise scenarios. Readers will go deep into the JAX-RS, JSON-P, and JSON-B APIs.
Chapter 4, Web- and Client-Server Communication, deals with the communication generated by web applications in a fast and reliable way using the latest Java EE 8 features, such as HTTP2 and Server Push.
Chapter 5, Security of Enterprise Architecture, gives the readers information on the tools using the best Java EE features to create secure architectures.
Chapter 6, Reducing the Coding Effort by Relying on Standards, describes the services and features that Java EE application servers give to the applications they host. Those features not only let the readers rely on a standard and build their application based on it, but also allow them to write less code, as they don't need to implement features that have been already implemented by the server.
Chapter 7, Deploying and Managing Applications on Major Java EE Servers, describes the use of each of the most commonly used Java EE application servers on the market, giving special attention to the way you deploy and manage them.
Chapter 8, Building Lightweight Solutions Using Microservices, makes you understand how microservice architectures work and how readers can easily use Java EE 8 to build microservice and/or break down their monoliths in order to implement this paradigm.
Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment are also described, as no successful microservice project is complete without a mature building and deployment process.
Chapter 9, Using Multithreading on Enterprise Context, describes the use of multithreading and concurrency when building enterprise applications.
Chapter 10, Using Event-Driven Programming to Build Reactive Applications, describes the use of Java EE 8 and core Java to create low-latency, efficient, and high-throughput applications.
Chapter 11, Rising to the Cloud – Java EE, Containers, and Cloud Computing, describes how to combine Java EE and containers to run applications on the cloud.
Appendix, The Power of Sharing Knowledge, describes how the community is vital for the whole Java EE ecosystem (even if readers don't know about it) and how they can improve their own daily work by joining the Adopt a JSR initiative.
It also describes how sharing knowledge is a powerful tool for improving their careers and what it has to do with Java EE (and it has everything to do with Java EE!).