Chapter 1, Money – The Quote Manager Application, starts by explaining how to set up a basic environment to be able to follow the book's chapters. It also shows you how to develop a common Java EE 8 application, which you can use all along the chapters to easily test every topic.
Chapter 2, Looking Under the Cover – What is This EE Thing?, explains why we use a JavaEE 8 container and what it brings to the developers. It goes through some mainstream technologies, and shows the work done under the cover by the server and how it can impact the performance when not used the way it was designed to be.
Chapter 3, Monitor Your Application, targets the instrumentation of the application in several flavors. The high-level goal ...
