Java EE 8 Technologies

Learn more about the technologies that comprise the Java EE 8 platform using the specifications, and then apply them with the Java EE 8 SDK.

Java EE 8 Technologies
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Java EE Platform
  
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8)

 JSR 366 Download spec  

Web Application Technologies
Java API for WebSocket 1.1 JSR 356 Download spec
Java API for JSON Binding 1.0 JSR 367 Download spec
Java API for JSON Processing 1.1 JSR 374 Download spec
Java Servlet 4.0 JSR 369 Download spec
JavaServer Faces 2.3 JSR 372 Download spec
Expression Language 3.0 JSR 341 Download spec
JavaServer Pages 2.3 JSR 245 Download spec
Standard Tag Library for JavaServer Pages (JSTL) 1.2 JSR 52 Download spec

Enterprise Application Technologies
Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0 JSR 352 Download spec  
Concurrency Utilities for Java EE 1.0 JSR 236 Download spec  
Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java 2.0 JSR 365 Download spec
Dependency Injection for Java 1.0 JSR 330 Download spec
Bean Validation 2.0 JSR 380 Download spec
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.2 JSR 345 Download spec
Interceptors 1.2
 		 JSR 318 Download spec
Java EE Connector Architecture 1.7 JSR 322 Download spec  
Java Persistence 2.2 JSR 338 Download spec
Common Annotations for the Java Platform 1.3 JSR 250 Download spec
Java Message Service API 2.0 JSR 343 Download spec  
Java Transaction API (JTA) 1.2 JSR 907 Download spec
JavaMail 1.6
 JSR 919 Download spec  

Web Services Technologies
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) 2.1 JSR 370 Download spec
Implementing Enterprise Web Services 1.3 JSR 109 Download spec  
Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform 2.1 JSR 181 Download spec  
Java API for XML-Based RPC (JAX-RPC) 1.1 (Optional) JSR 101 Download spec  
Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) 1.0 (Optional)
 JSR 93 Download spec  

Management and Security Technologies
Java EE Security API 1.0 JSR 375 Download spec
Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers 1.1 JSR 196 Download spec
Java Authorization Contract for Containers 1.5 JSR 115 Download spec  
Java EE Application Deployment 1.2  (Optional) JSR 88 Download spec  
J2EE Management 1.1 JSR 77 Download spec  
Debugging Support for Other Languages 1.0 JSR 45 Download spec

Java EE-related Specs in Java SE
Java Management Extensions (JMX) 2.0 JSR 3 Download spec  
SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) Specification 1.3 JSR 67 Download spec  
Streaming API for XML (StAX) 1.0 JSR 173 Download spec  
Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.6 JSR 206 Download spec  
Java Database Connectivity 4.0 JSR 221 Download spec  
Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.2 JSR 222 Download spec  
Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.2 JSR 224 Download spec  
JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) 1.1 JSR 925 Download spec