Java EE 7 Platform Receives Final Approval from JCP Executives

According to a post in the Oracle blog, the next version of enterprise Java, Java EE 7 has got the approval of Java Community Process executive. The new version of Java Enterprise Edition, Java EE7 is likely to be implemented in next couple of weeks, the blog said. Java EE 7 Platform and Web Profile JSR have received the final approval of JCP Executive Committee with an overwhelming majority of the committee members.

Java EE 7 Platform Receives Final Approval from JCP Executives

According to a post in the Oracle blog, the next version of enterprise Java, Java EE 7 has got the approval of Java Community Process executive. The new version of Java Enterprise Edition, Java EE7 is likely to be implemented in next couple of weeks, the blog said. Java EE 7 Platform and Web Profile JSR have received the final approval of JCP Executive Committee with an overwhelming majority of the committee members.

Java EE 7 Platform Receives Final Approval from JCP Executives


According to a post in the Oracle blog, the next version of enterprise Java, Java EE 7 has got the approval of Java Community Process executive. The new version of Java Enterprise Edition, Java EE7 is likely to be implemented in next couple of weeks, the blog said.

Linda DeMichiel in the blog said that the Java EE 7 Platform and Web Profile JSR have received the final approval of JCP Executive Committee with an overwhelming majority of the committee members.

"This completes the JCP approval process for all of the JSRs under the Java EE 7 umbrella.," she wrote.

The new Java EE 7 Platform consists of 14 Java Specification Requests (JSRs) and 9 Maintenance Releases (MRs), which also includes the JSRs led by Red Hat (CDI and Bean Validation) and IBM (Batch). Of these JSRs, the WebSocket, JSON, Concurrency, and Batch JSRs are new to the Java EE Platform with this release.

The list of the JSRs and MRs includes:

Java Specification Requests (JSRs):

  • Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 (JSR 342)
  • Concurrency Utilities for Java EE 1.0 (JSR 236)
  • Java Persistence 2.1 (JSR 338)
  • JAX-RS: The Java API for RESTful Web Services 2.0 (JSR 339)
  • Java Servlet 3.1 (JSR 340)
  • Expression Language 3.0 (JSR 341)
  • Java Message Service 2.0 (JSR 343)
  • JavaServer Faces 2.2 (JSR 344)
  • Enterprise JavaBeans 3.2 (JSR 345)
  • Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE 1.1 (JSR 346)
  • Bean Validation 1.1 (JSR 349)
  • Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0 (JSR 352)
  • Java API for JSON Processing 1.0 (JSR 353)
  • Java API for WebSocket 1.0 (JSR 356)

Maintenance Releases (MRs)

  • Web Services for Java EE 1.4 (JSR 109)
  • Java Authorization Service Provider Contract for Containers 1.5 (JACC 1.5) (JSR 115)
  • Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers 1.1 (JASPIC 1.1) (JSR 196)
  • JavaServer Pages 2.3 (JSR 245)
  • Common Annotations for the Java Platform 1.2 (JSR 250)
  • Interceptors 1.2 (JSR 318)
  • Java EE Connector Architecture 1.7 (JSR 322)
  • Java Transaction API 1.2 (JSR 907)
  • JavaMail 1.5 (JSR 919)

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