Building a Modern Enterprise App with Payara: A 15-Step Journey
Learning Jakarta EE can sometimes feel like solving a puzzle. You have JPA, CDI, REST, Security, and Docker… but how do they all fit together in a real-world scenario? To answer this, I decided to build a comprehensive, open-source guide: The Jakarta EE Developer Full Path. This project is not just a collection of snippets; it is a structured marathon consisting of 15 practical sessions. We start fro an empty folder and finish with a fully containerized microservice running on Payara Micro, covering the entire software development lifecycle. Here is what developers will find in this tutorial series hosted on GitHub. 1. The Foundations: Getting the Basics Right The journey begins with the essentials. We use Payara Server Community as our runtime because of its “deployment-ready” nature. 2. Going Enterprise: Logic and Security Once the CRUD is ready, we step up the game. Real applications need more than just saving data. 3. The Frontend and Real-Time A backend is nothing without a user interface. We build a functional UI using Jakarta Faces (JSF), leveraging templating and validation. We also add a “wow” […]
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