Tero Parviainen - Real-time Web Application Development using Vert.x 2.0

Tero Parviainen has been building software professionally for about 12 years, mostly for the web and most of it with Java, Ruby, JavaScript, and Clojure. From large enterprise back-office systems to consumer mobile applications, he has worked in a variety of different environments.

He currently works as an independent software maker, focusing mainly on software development contracting and training for several customers. He can be found on Twitter and GitHub as @teropa.

Id like to thank my colleagues at Deveo and Eficode for all their support during the writing process.

Id also like to thank the reviewers for this book: Marko Klemetti, Mikko Nyln, and Fredrik Sandell. The content and flow of the book was improved immensely based on their feedback and ideas.

Finally, Id like to thank all the people from Packt Publishing who have helped me through the book authoring process: Ekta Patel, Ameya Sawant, Joel Goveya, and Sharvari Tawde.

Marko Klemetti (@mrako) is a father of three, a leader, and a developer. He is currently the head of the leading Finnish Devops Unit in Eficode (http://www.eficode.com). With his team, he changes the way Finnish and multinational organizations create and purchase software. He is also the founder and architect of Trail (http://www.entertrail.com), an internationally successful solution for Social Asset Management in Performing Arts.

He has specialized in bringing efficiency to large software production environments by applying modern software development practices and tools, such as Continuous Delivery ( CD ) and Acceptance Test Driven Development ( ATDD ). With his two decades of software development experience, he is able to engage both the executives and the developers in process change. He is passionate in making programming both fun and productive at the same time.

Mikko Nyln is an enthusiastic software developer who has multiple years of experience in developing large-scale web applications and services using JVM, node.js, and Ruby for some of the top companies in Finland.

Fredrik Sandell is a 26-year-old software developer with a Masters degree in Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology. He loves software development and is especially interested in JVM technologies and web development. He has developed software privately and professionally for more than 10 years and has been a part of development projects from some of the largest telecom companies in Sweden.

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Preface

The real-time web is here. We've come a long way from the collection of linked, static pages that started it all; from the very first web applications in the 1990s, through the Ajax revolution about seven years ago, to the latest crop of highly dynamic web properties.

The web applications of today are alive. Facebook, Gmail, corporate financial dashboards, chat services, and stock tickers all give us the information we want, when we want it. This is made possible by new web standards, increasingly high-speed networks, and the multitude of new categories of devices from smartphones to smart televisions.

To build these new kinds of applications, we also need new kind of technology. The web frameworks that powered much of the page-based web aren't necessarily cut out to serve the real-time web. This is where Vert.x comes in. Vert.x has been designed from the ground up to enable you to build scalable, real-time web applications.

Real-Time Web Application Development using Vert.x 2.0 will show you how to build a real-time web application with Vert.x. During the course of the book, you will go from the very first "Hello, World" to publishing a fully featured application on the Internet.

The book presents one extended example application: a real-time mind map editor. Mind maps are a popular technique for capturing ideas and information in a connected tree of words and concepts.