Google recently open sourced gRPC, which adds remote procedure calls on top of Protobufs, including code generation and serialization that works with multiple languages.
Learn all about transaction management using Spring, and explore what transaction management is, how to effectively tackle this in Spring, and various tips.
Trying to communicate using JSON files or messages? Here is a tool that will make it easier to share how the JSON should be constructed, without leaving a code editor and browser.
Redis server provides many popular data structures like map, list, set... In practice, however, you may face more complicated requirements, such as storing several values per key, for example. The best practice for that would be implementing the Multimap.
JSR 372 is currently in the Early Draft Review stage. The JSF 2.3 spec is not complete and will likely change significantly before finalization. In the meantime, here's a pragmatic deep-dive into JSF 2.3 in its current state.