Java EE Platform Specification

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Specifications

Java EE Specifications

This table contains useful links for Java EE specifications:

  • The home page for the specification project.
  • The JCP page for the most recent JSR.
  • Where to file bugs against the specification.
  • The home page for the reference implementation project.
  • Where to file bugs against the reference implementation.

The Java EE 8 technology page contains links to the JCP JSR pages and the specification download pages.

Technology JSR Spec Bugs Reference Implementation RI Bugs
Java EE Platform 366 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
Java EE Web Profile 366 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
Managed Beans 366 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
Servlets 369 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
EJB 345 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
Java Persistence API 338 Issues EclipseLink Eclipse Bugzilla
JAX-RS 370 Issues Jersey Jersey Issues
JSF 372 Issues Mojarra Mojarra Issues
JMS 343 Issues Open MQ Open MQ Issues
Expression Language 341 Issues UEL UEL Issues
JSON Processing 374 Issues JSONP JSONP Issues
JSON Binding 367 Issues Yasson Yasson Issues
Web Socket API 356 Issues Tyrus Tyrus Issues
Concurrency Utilities for Java EE 236 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
JavaMail 919 Issues JavaMail JavaMail Issues
CDI 365 Issues Weld Weld Issues
Bean Validation 380 Issues Hibernate Validator Hibernate Validator Issues
Batch 352 Issues JBatch JBatch Issues
Java EE Connector Architecture 322 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
Java Transaction API 907 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
Java EE Security 375 Issues Soteria Soteria Issues
Common Annotations 250   GlassFish GlassFish Issues
Interceptors 345 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
JSP 245 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
JSTL 52 Issues GlassFish GlassFish Issues
JSP Debugging 45   GlassFish GlassFish Issues
Dependency Injection 330   Guice  
Management 77   GlassFish GlassFish Issues
Web Services 109   GlassFish GlassFish Issues
JASPIC 196   GlassFish GlassFish Issues
JAAC 115   GlassFish GlassFish Issues
JAXR (Optional) 93   GlassFish GlassFish Issues
JAX-RPC (Optional) 101   GlassFish GlassFish Issues
Deployment (Optional) 88   GlassFish GlassFish Issues




Java SE Specifications

The following specifications were introduced as part of Java EE, but are now included in Java SE.

Technology JSR Spec Bugs Reference Implementation RI Bugs
JAX-WS 224 Issues Metro Metro Issues
Web Service Metadata 181   GlassFish GlassFish Issues
JAXB 222 Issues Metro JAXB Metro JAXB Issues
SAAJ 67 Issues Metro SAAJ Metro SAAJ Issues
JavaBeans Activation Framework 925 Issues JAF JAF




The following specifications are not currently included in Java EE, but may be of interest to Java EE developers.

Technology JSR Spec Bugs Reference Implementation RI Bugs
MVC 371 Issues Ozark Ozark Issues
Portlet 362 Issues Pluto Pluto Issues
FacesBridge 378 Issues Liferay Faces Bridge Liferay Faces Bridge Issues