Here's a quick recap of some of the recent Java EE 8 news.

JSF 2.3 (JSR 372) is now final! You can check the Release Notes and download the Reference Implementation. A small party was held at JavaLand to celebrate this community effort!

The JAX-RS 2.1 EG (JSR 370) has posted an Early Draft that covers 2 of the 3 big-ticket JAX-RS 2.1 features: SSE support and a Reactive Client API. The details on Non Blocking IO support, the 3rd big-ticket feature, are now also being discussed. To get a good overview of JAX-RS 2.1, check the presentation that Santiago Pericas-Geertsen (JAX-RS 2.1 co-Spec Lead) did at Devoxx US (video will be published soon).

The Java EE Security API EG (JSR 375) has posted its first Early Draft. For both JAX-RS 2.1 and the Java EE Security API make sure to read the drafts and provides your feedback in time!

The Servlet 4 EG ( JSR 369 ) is also making progress towards another Early Draft; they have just published an updated schedule that align with the Java EE 8 global schedule. In parallel, we are observing progress on the Reference Implementation work (e.g. Server Push support is being added).





JavaMail should get a Maintenance Release for Java EE 8 (see details here ), a Release Candidate of JavaMail 1.6 is available here





In other news, IBM has confirmed that they are not planning to do a Maintenance Release of the Batch API ( JSR 352 ) for Java EE 8.









Finally, you might want to check the 3rd Adopt a JSR online meeting held by the JCP.