Nuts and Bolts of Java EE 7 Interceptors

Java EE 7 interceptors play a key role in aligning managed beans across the Java EE 7 platform and are a powerful tool for managing cross-component concerns. This session discusses the role of Java EE 7 interceptors in supporting method-level bean validation, the new JTA declarative transactions, and expanded lifecycle callback hooks. It also describes these new features and showcases tips, tricks, and best practices for their use.

Author:
Emmanuel Bernard
After graduating from Supelec (French "Grande Ecole"), Emmanuel has spent a few years in the retail industry where he started to be involved in the ORM space. He joined the Hibernate team 4 years ago and is now a core developer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. Emmanuel is the lead developer of Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager, two key projects on top of Hibernate core implementing the Java Persistence(tm) specification, as well as Hibernate Search and Validator. Emmanuel is a member of the EJB 3.0 expert group and the JSR 303: Bean Validation expert group. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and JUGs, including JavaOne, JBoss World and JAX.