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Jakarta Servlet 6.1

Release for Jakarta EE 11

Jakarta Servlet defines a server-side API for handling HTTP requests and responses.

The release removes references to the SecurityManager and provides various small enhancements and clarifications.

New features, enhancements or additions

  • Allow control of status code and response body when sending a redirect
  • Add a query string attribute to error dispatches
  • Add constants for new HTTP status codes
  • Add overloaded methods that use CharSet rather than String
  • Add ByteBuffer support to ServletInputStream and ServletOutputStream
  • Various clarifications

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

  • All references to the SecurityManager and associated APIs have been removed

Minimum Java SE Version

Java SE 17 or higher

Details

Compatible Implementations

Ballots

Release Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2024-06-04 with the following results.

Representative Representative for: Vote
Kenji Kazumura Fujitsu +1
Emily Jiang, Tom Watson IBM +1
Ed Bratt, Dmitry Kornilov Oracle +1
Andrew Pielage, Petr Aubrecht Payara +1
David Blevins, Jean-Louis Monteiro Tomitribe +1
Ivar Grimstad EE4J PMC +1
Marcelo Ancelmo, Abraham Marin-Perez Participant Members +1
Werner Keil Committer Members +1
Dr. Jun Qian Enterprise Members +1
Zhai Luchao Enterprise Members +1
Total 10

Non-binding votes

Representative Representative for: Vote
Angelo Rubini Community +1
Greg Wilkins Jetty +1
Total 2

The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list

Plan Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2023-07-26 with the following results.

Representative Representative for: Vote
Kenji Kazumura Fujitsu +1
Emily Jiang, Tom Watson IBM +1
Ed Bratt, Dmitry Kornilov Oracle +1
Andrew Pielage, Petr Aubrecht Payara +1
David Blevins, Jean-Louis Monteiro Tomitribe no vote
Ivar Grimstad EE4J PMC +1
Marcelo Ancelmo, Abraham Marin-Perez Participant Members +1
Werner Keil Committer Members +1
Zhai Luchao Enterprise Members +1
Scott Stark, Scott Marlow Enterprise Members +1
Total 9

The ballot was run on the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list

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