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Specifications Overview

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Standalone

Specifications not included in the Platform, Web, or Core Profiles.

Candidate for inclusion.

May or may not be updated as a part of Security 5.0.

Platform and Profile Specifications

The Jakarta EE Platform and Profile specifications are the umbrella specifications for the individual specifications. The Jakarta EE Platform includes most of the individual specifications, while the Profile specifications include the individual specifications for developing web platforms and microservices architectures.

Project: Jakarta EE Platform Website: Jakarta EE Platform Video Guide: Jakarta EE Platform

Jakarta EE Platform

Defines a platform for hosting Jakarta EE applications
- Jakarta EE Platform 12 (Under development)
- Jakarta EE Platform 11
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Project: Jakarta EE Web Profile Website: Jakarta EE Web Profile Video Guide: Jakarta EE Web Profile

Jakarta EE Web Profile

Web profile of platform for hosting Jakarta EE applications
- Jakarta EE Web Profile 12 (Under development)
- Jakarta EE Web Profile 11
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Project: Jakarta EE Core Profile Website: Jakarta EE Core Profile Video Guide: Jakarta EE Core Profile

Jakarta EE Core Profile

Core profile of platform for smaller runtimes
- Jakarta EE Core Profile 12 (Under development)
- Jakarta EE Core Profile 11
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Individual Specifications

Each individual specification describes a standardized way of implementing a particular aspect of an enterprise Java application.

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Project: Jakarta Activation Website: Jakarta Activation

Jakarta Activation

Defines standard services for MIME type data access
- Jakarta Activation 2.2 (under development)
- Jakarta Activation 2.1
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Project: Jakarta Agentic Artificial Intelligence Website: Jakarta Agentic Artificial Intelligence

Jakarta Agentic Artificial Intelligence

Jakarta API for Agentic AI
- Jakarta Agentic Artificial Intelligence 1.0 (under development)
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Project: Jakarta Annotations Website: Jakarta Annotations

Jakarta Annotations

Declarative style annotations for common semantic concepts
- Jakarta Annotations 3.1 (Under development)
- Jakarta Annotations 3.0
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Project: Jakarta Authentication Website: Jakarta Authentication

Jakarta Authentication

Low-level container SPI for authentication mechanisms
- Jakarta Authentication 3.1
- Jakarta Authentication 3.0
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Project: Jakarta Authorization Website: Jakarta Authorization

Jakarta Authorization

Low-level container SPI for authorization modules
- Jakarta Authorization 3.0
- Jakarta Authorization 2.1
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Project: Jakarta Batch

Jakarta Batch

API plus an XML-based batch job specification language
- Jakarta Batch 2.2 (Under Development)
- Jakarta Batch 2.1
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Project: Jakarta Concurrency Website: Jakarta Concurrency

Jakarta Concurrency

API for app level concurrency that integrates with container
- Jakarta Concurrency 3.2 (under development)
- Jakarta Concurrency 3.1
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Project: Jakarta Config

Jakarta Config

Standardizes externalized configuration
- Jakarta Config 1.0 (under development)
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Project: Jakarta Connectors Website: Jakarta Connectors

Jakarta Connectors

Architecture for connecting apps to enterprise info systems
- Jakarta Connectors 3.0 (under development)
- Jakarta Connectors 2.1
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Project: Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection Website: Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection

Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection

Declarative dependency injection and supporting services
- Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 5.0
- Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 4.1
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Project: Jakarta CRaC

Jakarta CRaC

Standardizes the behaviour for checkpoint and restore events
- Jakarta CRaC 1.0 (Under Development)
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Project: Jakarta Data Video Guide: Jakarta Data

Jakarta Data

Standardized Data Access with the Repository pattern.
- Jakarta Data 1.1 (under development)
- Jakarta Data 1.0
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Project: Jakarta Debugging Support for Other Languages Website: Jakarta Debugging Support for Other Languages

Jakarta Debugging Support for Other Languages

non-Java language debugging support
- Jakarta Debugging Support for Other Languages 2.0
- Jakarta Debugging Support for Other Languages 1.0
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Project: Jakarta Dependency Injection Website: Jakarta Dependency Injection

Jakarta Dependency Injection

Common declarative dependency injection annotations
- Jakarta Dependency Injection 2.0
- Jakarta Dependency Injection 1.0
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Project: Jakarta Deployment

Jakarta Deployment

Deployment APIs for assembled Jakarta EE applications
- Jakarta Deployment 1.7
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Project: Jakarta Enterprise Beans Website: Jakarta Enterprise Beans

Jakarta Enterprise Beans

Architecture/API for component-based business applications
- Jakarta Enterprise Beans 4.1 (under development)
- Jakarta Enterprise Beans 4.0
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Project: Jakarta Enterprise Web Services Website: Jakarta Enterprise Web Services

Jakarta Enterprise Web Services

Web Services for Jakarta EE architecture
- Jakarta Enterprise Web Services 2.0
- Jakarta Enterprise Web Services 1.4
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Project: Jakarta Expression Language Website: Jakarta Expression Language

Jakarta Expression Language

Defines an expression language for Java applications
- Jakarta Expression Language 6.1 (under development)
- Jakarta Expression Language 6.0
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Project: Jakarta Faces Website: Jakarta Faces

Jakarta Faces

MVC framework for building user interfaces for web apps
- Jakarta Faces 5.0 (Under development)
- Jakarta Faces 4.1
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Project: Jakarta Interceptors Website: Jakarta Interceptors

Jakarta Interceptors

Defines a means of interposing on business method/events
- Jakarta Interceptors 2.2
- Jakarta Interceptors 2.1
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Project: Jakarta JSON Binding Website: Jakarta JSON Binding

Jakarta JSON Binding

Binding framework for converting POJOs to/from JSON docs
- Jakarta JSON Binding 3.0
- Jakarta JSON Binding 3.1 (under development)
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Project: Jakarta JSON Processing Website: Jakarta JSON Processing

Jakarta JSON Processing

API to parse, generate, transform, and query JSON docs
- Jakarta JSON Processing 2.2 (under development)
- Jakarta JSON Processing 2.1
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Project: Jakarta Mail Website: Jakarta Mail

Jakarta Mail

Framework to build mail and messaging applications
- Jakarta Mail 2.2 (under development)
- Jakarta Mail 2.1
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Project: Jakarta Managed Beans Website: Jakarta Managed Beans

Jakarta Managed Beans

Defines set of basic services for container-managed objects
- Jakarta Managed Beans 2.0
- Jakarta Managed Beans 1.0
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Project: Jakarta Management

Jakarta Management

Management model for exposing and accessing information
- Jakarta Management 1.1
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Project: Jakarta Messaging Website: Jakarta Messaging

Jakarta Messaging

Messaging via loosely coupled, reliable asynch services
- Jakarta Messaging 3.1
- Jakarta Messaging 3.0
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Project: Jakarta MVC Website: Jakarta MVC

Jakarta MVC

Standardizes the action-based model-view-controller pattern
- Jakarta MVC 3.1 (Under Development)
- Jakarta MVC 3.0
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Project: Jakarta NoSQL

Jakarta NoSQL

Jakarta NoSQL defines a standard for creating …
- Jakarta NoSQL 1.1 (Under Development)
- Jakarta NoSQL 1.0
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Project: Jakarta Pages Website: Jakarta Pages

Jakarta Pages

Defines a template engine for web applications
- Jakarta Pages 4.1 (under development)
- Jakarta Pages 4.0
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Project: Jakarta Persistence Website: Jakarta Persistence Video Guide: Jakarta Persistence

Jakarta Persistence

Management of persistence and object/relational mapping
- Jakarta Persistence 4.0 (under development)
- Jakarta Persistence 3.2
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Project: Jakarta Portlet

Jakarta Portlet

APIs and requirements for portlet apps and containers
- Jakarta Portlet 4.0 (under development)
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Project: Jakarta Portlet Bridge

Jakarta Portlet Bridge

Bridge API for running Faces webapps in portlet containers
- Jakarta Portlet Bridge 7.0 (under development)
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Project: Jakarta Query

Jakarta Query

An object-oriented query language
- Jakarta Query 1.0 (under development)
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Project: Jakarta RESTful Web Services Website: Jakarta RESTful Web Services Video Guide: Jakarta RESTful Web Services

Jakarta RESTful Web Services

API to develop web services following the REST pattern
- Jakarta RESTful Web Services 5.0 (under development)
- Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0
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Project: Jakarta RPC

Jakarta RPC

Standardizes gRPC within Jakarta EE
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Project: Jakarta Security Website: Jakarta Security

Jakarta Security

Defines a standard for creating secure EE applications
- Jakarta Security 5.0 (under development)
- Jakarta Security 4.0
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Project: Jakarta Servlet Website: Jakarta Servlet

Jakarta Servlet

A server-side API for handling HTTP requests and responses
- Jakarta Servlet 6.2 (under development)
- Jakarta Servlet 6.1
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Project: Jakarta SOAP with Attachments Website: Jakarta SOAP with Attachments

Jakarta SOAP with Attachments

API for SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, and SOAP Attachments Feature
- Jakarta SOAP with Attachments 3.0
- Jakarta SOAP with Attachments 2.0
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Project: Jakarta Standard Tag Library Website: Jakarta Standard Tag Library

Jakarta Standard Tag Library

Provides a set of tags to simplify the JSP development
- Jakarta Standard Tag Library 3.1 (under development)
- Jakarta Standard Tag Library 3.0
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Project: Jakarta Transactions Website: Jakarta Transactions

Jakarta Transactions

Allows handling transactions consistent with X/Open XA-spec
- Jakarta Transactions 2.1 (under development)
- Jakarta Transactions 2.0
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Project: Jakarta Validation Website: Jakarta Validation

Jakarta Validation

Object level constraint declaration and validation facility
- Jakarta Validation 4.0 (Under development)
- Jakarta Validation 3.1
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Project: Jakarta Web Services Metadata Website: Jakarta Web Services Metadata

Jakarta Web Services Metadata

Defines web services for WSDL binding, and configuration
- Jakarta Web Services Metadata 3.0
- Jakarta Web Services Metadata Specification 2.1
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Project: Jakarta WebSocket Website: Jakarta WebSocket

Jakarta WebSocket

API for Server and Client Endpoints for WebSocket protocol
- Jakarta WebSocket 2.3 (under development)
- Jakarta WebSocket 2.2
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Project: Jakarta XML Binding Website: Jakarta XML Binding

Jakarta XML Binding

API and tools automate mapping between XML docs and POJOs
- Jakarta XML Binding 4.1 (under development)
- Jakarta XML Binding 4.0
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Project: Jakarta XML Registries

Jakarta XML Registries

API for interoperable set of registry services
- Jakarta XML Registries Spec 1.0
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Project: Jakarta XML RPC

Jakarta XML RPC

Defines consistent Java APIs for XML based RPC standards
- Jakarta XML RPC 1.1
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Project: Jakarta XML Web Services Website: Jakarta XML Web Services

Jakarta XML Web Services

Defines a means for XML-Based Web Services based on SOAP
- Jakarta XML Web Services 4.0
- Jakarta XML Web Services 3.0
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Specifications Overview

Jakarta EE Platform

Standalone

Platform and Profile Specifications

Jakarta EE Platform

Jakarta EE Web Profile

Jakarta EE Core Profile

Individual Specifications

Jakarta Activation

Jakarta Agentic Artificial Intelligence

Jakarta Annotations

Jakarta Authentication

Jakarta Authorization

Jakarta Batch

Jakarta Concurrency

Jakarta Config

Jakarta Connectors

Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection

Jakarta CRaC

Jakarta Data

Jakarta Debugging Support for Other Languages

Jakarta Dependency Injection

Jakarta Deployment

Jakarta Enterprise Beans

Jakarta Enterprise Web Services

Jakarta Expression Language

Jakarta Faces

Jakarta Interceptors

Jakarta JSON Binding

Jakarta JSON Processing

Jakarta Mail

Jakarta Managed Beans

Jakarta Management

Jakarta Messaging

Jakarta MVC

Jakarta NoSQL

Jakarta Pages

Jakarta Persistence

Jakarta Portlet

Jakarta Portlet Bridge

Jakarta Query

Jakarta RESTful Web Services

Jakarta RPC

Jakarta Security

Jakarta Servlet

Jakarta SOAP with Attachments

Jakarta Standard Tag Library

Jakarta Transactions

Jakarta Validation

Jakarta Web Services Metadata

Jakarta WebSocket

Jakarta XML Binding

Jakarta XML Registries

Jakarta XML RPC

Jakarta XML Web Services

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