Enterprise Java

JEE7: Looking ahead to a new era

With the release of Java EE 7 scheduled for the second half of 2012, projected JSRs are all up and running. The Java EE 7 release, which will reflect the evolving needs of the industry as it moves into the cloud, is date driven: anything not ready will be deferred to Java EE 8.

Here is an update and summary of the key features of different specifications in the Java EE 7 platform.

1.     Java EE 7 Specification (JSR-342)
§  Main theme: to easily run applications on private or public clouds
§  The platform will define an application metadata descriptor to describe the PaaS execution environment such as multitenancy, resources sharing, quality of service, and dependencies between applications.
§  Embrace latest standards like HTML5, WebSocket, and JSON and have a standards-based API for each one of them.
§  Remove inconsistencies between Managed Beans, EJBs, Servlets, JSF, CDI, and JAX-RS.
§  Possible inclusion of JAX-RS 2.0 in the Web Profile, revised JMS 2.0 API.
§  Technology refresh for several existing technologies and possible inclusion of Concurrency Utilities for Java EE (JSR-236) and JCache (JSR-107).
§  Status:
·         Approved by the JCP.
·         Spec leads: Linda DeMichiel, Bill Shannon (Oracle).
·         Project page
·         Mailing list archive, jsr342-expert@javaee-spec.java.net , users@javaeespec.java.net
2.     Java Persistence 2.1 (JSR-338)
§  Support for multitenancy.
§  Support for stored procedures and vendor function.
§  Update and Delete Criteria queries.
§  Support for schema generation.
§  Persistence Context synchronization.
§  CDI injection into listeners.
§  Status:
·         Approved by the JCP
·         Spec lead: Linda DeMichiel (Oracle)
·         Project page
·         Mailing list archive, jsr338-experts@jpa-spec.java.net , users@jpa-sepc.java.net

Read more at Java EE 7: Key features, Specifications, Projects, Mailing List Archives from Arun Gupta.

Ilias Tsagklis

Ilias is a software developer turned online entrepreneur. He is co-founder and Executive Editor at Java Code Geeks.
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devylon
12 years ago

What about an update for the JMX spec ?

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