JEE Demos

This repository includes JEE demos for Servlets, JSPs, JSFs, JAX-RS and EJBs.

Recommendations and Dev Choices

• IDE: Opensource Eclipse IDE for JEE is recommended
• JDK: Open JDK 1.8 (not JRE) to use JavaEE/JakartaEE 8 recommended
• JEE Server: Glassfish v5.1 supporting JavaEE/JakartaEE 8 recommended

Setting Up Development Environment

1. Make sure you downloaded Eclipse IDE for JEE Development from here
2. Please refer here to setup Eclipse IDE
3. Please refer here to setup a new GlassFish Server instance in Eclipse IDE
4. Download and install OpenJDK 1.8 (if not available) from here

Building the Source Code

Each demo1,...demo5 folders are considered separate JEE projects for the IDE.

Running Gradle Tasks through Terminal

You can simply navigate into the demoN folder and execute the following;

For Linux / MacOSX;

cd demo1
./gradlew clean build

For Windows;

cd demo1
./gradlew.bat clean build

Running Gradle Tasks from Eclipse IDE

Below steps assume that you have already configured Gradle Tasks view in Eclipse IDE as explained here

1. Goto Window -> Preferences; Select Gradle and enter JDK1.8 path into your Gradle Java Home path.
2. Then from the tree hierarchy; select correct project(eg. demo1), expand build item,
   • Click on clean to run cleaning task,
   • Click on build to run build task

NOTE: Whenever you are doing changes to the gradle file; make sure to right-click on the project and Gradle -> Refresh Gradle Project

Deploy and Run JEE Application in Glassfish Server

Below steps assume that you have already configured server instance in Eclipse IDE as explained here.

1. Right Click on Server instance we created. Then select Add and Remove....

2. From the window; for example if you want to add demo1 into JEE server; select demo1 first and click Add button this will results demo1 appear in the list of right side.

3. Start the server by right click and selecting Start.

4. Whenever doing changes, you can execute clean build gradle tasks(if required) then right click on the server and click Publish to publish the changes.