Jakarta EE and JSF 2.x

Jakarta EE

In September 2017, Oracle announced its intention to transition Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation. Java EE has since been rebranded to Jakarta EE, and JSF 2.3 (Eclipse Mojarra) has been adopted for continuation. The next major release of the JSF specification will be Eclipse Mojarra 3.0. (source from JavaWorld).

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Create a backend for frontend application architecture

A Backend for Frontend (BFF) architecture can be used to create backends for client-facing mobile or web apps. BFF’s can help support an application with multiple clients while at the same time moving the system into a less-coupled state than a monolith system. This code pattern helps teams iterate features faster and have control over the backends for mobile apps without affecting the experience for a corresponding mobile or web app.

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The new Web application architectures and their impacts for enterprises

In the first part of this article, we talked about new front-end architectures, which consist of JavaScript Web applications using APIs provided by a back-end server: The new Web application architectures and their impacts for enterprises – Part 1.

We saw that they recently emerged thanks to the increasing performance of browsers and the rise of industrialization tools for JavaScript development.

In this second part, we will focus on:

• reasons why you should adopt these new architectures;
• opportunities they provide;
• impacts for enterprises.

Why adopting these new architectures?

Address heterogeneous clients with the same back-end code

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