Full-Stack Web Development with Jakarta EE and Vue.js

Building a full-stack application means more than making a front end and back end work separately: the architecture, data, security, and testing all have to fit together. Daniel Andres Pelaez Lopez’s guide traces that process with Jakarta EE on the server side and in the browser, using a delivery-service application to connect technical ideas to an evolving project.

The result is a book-length development path, from getting the tools in place to thinking about deployment and monitoring. Its intermediate-to-advanced treatment will suit readers ready to work across application layers rather than focus on only one framework.

Start with the two sides of the stack

The early chapters introduce Jakarta EE as a back-end layer and as a front-end layer, then build up concepts such as components, routing, TypeScript, and state management. This foundation helps frame how the client and server will eventually share responsibility in one application.

Design the application before wiring it together

Using the delivery-service example, the book moves through requirements analysis, architecture, entity modeling, and persistence with JPA. It also considers the front-end experience through wireframes, pages, reusable components, and navigation. That sequence gives readers a view of how business needs and technical structure inform one another.

Connect UI, services, and data

On the back end, the material covers business-layer design, RESTful JAX-RS services, dependency injection, and testing. It then turns to the integration work: API calls between and Jakarta EE, environment settings, cross-origin requests, and exception handling. The emphasis is on the seams between layers—the places where a full-stack application has to behave as one system.

Security and the path beyond implementation

Authentication and authorization lead into OpenID Connect and Keycloak. Later sections broaden the scope to design patterns and development practices, cloud architecture, continuous integration and deployment, and testing and monitoring. Together, these subjects make the book relevant to developers thinking about an application’s lifecycle, not just its first working version.

A practical fit for Java and developers

This book is for readers who want to understand how Jakarta EE and can be brought together in an enterprise-style web application. Familiarity with software development concepts will help, while the early framework chapters provide a starting point for the specific tools used throughout.

If your goal is to follow a project across planning, implementation, integration, security, and operations, this guide offers a structured route through the work.