January was a busy for month for Java EE 8, here is a short recap of some of the activities that have occurred recently.









On the JAX-RS front, there has been a lot of progress as we now have concrete proposals for 2 of the 3 JAX-RS 2.1‘big ticket’ features, the Reactive Client API and the Server-sent Events support. Non Blocking IO providers is the third ‘big ticket’ feature that should be discussed next in the JAX-RS Expert Group









The Servlet 4 Expert Group is also making good progress as some of the technical implementations details of HTTP/2 (e.g. Server Push) are currently being discussed (see here ). In addition, it seems that we can expect to see concrete discussions on the Security JSR (JSR-375) in the coming days.









Concretely, we now have 4 Java EE 8 specifications in Public Draft (JSON-B 1.0, JSON-P 1.0, JSF 2.3 and CDI 2.0). So it is a good time to get engaged, test and provide feedback on those specifications. Watching the Adopt A JSR webcast that was recently hosted by the JCP is a good starting point to contribute.