Jakarta EE 8 Starter Boilerplate

What is it?

Jakarta EE 8 starter is a boilerplate project to help you to bootstrap a new Java EE 8/Jakarta EE 8 application in seconds.

If you want to explore the real world Jakarta EE 8 applications based on JSF, JAX-RS and MVC, check the following projects which are derived from this project.

• Jakarta Faces Sample
• Jakarta MVC Sample
• Jakarta Jaxrs Sample

Build

Make sure you have installed the latest JDK 8 and Apache Maven 3.6.

Execute the following command to build a clean package locally.

mvn clean package

More details of testing and further deployments on application severs, check the docs.

Docs

There is a comprehensive setup guide available for the Jakarta EE newbies, including:

1. Setup local development environment with the popular IDEs, such as:
   • Apache NetBeans IDE
   • Eclipse IDE
   • IntelliJ IDEA.
2. Deploy and Run application on the popular application servers, such as:
   • Glassfish
   • WildFly
   • Open Liberty
3. Testing Jakarta components using Junit and JBoss Arquillian.
4. Publish application into production environment.

Resources

• WildFly Maven Plugin (wildfly-maven-plugin)
• Deploying to Payara Server Using the Maven Cargo Plugin by Payara Blog
• Cargo Maven2 Plugin for Glassfish v5
• Video course on efficient enterprise testing
• Testing Java EE 7 Applications in Docker with Arquillian-Cube
• Testing HTML and JSF-Based UIs with Arquillian
• Jakarta EE & Wildfly Running on Kubernetes
• Building Self-Contained and Configurable Java EE Applications
• Switching between data sources when using @DataSourceDefinition
• The state of @DataSourceDefinition in Java EE