The main theme is to easily run applications on private or

public clouds

public clouds The platform will define application metadata descriptor to

describe PaaS execution environment such as multi-tenancy,

resources sharing, quality-of-service, and dependencies between

applications

describe PaaS execution environment such as multi-tenancy, resources sharing, quality-of-service, and dependencies between applications Embrace latest standards like HTML5, WebSocket, JSON and have

a standards-based API for each one of them

a standards-based API for each one of them Remove inconsistencies between Managed Beans, EJB, Servlets,

JSF, CDI, and JAX-RS

JSF, CDI, and JAX-RS Possible inclusion of JAX-RS 2.0 in the Web Profile, revised

JMS 2.0 API





JMS 2.0 API Technology Refresh for several existing technologies (more on

this below) and possible inclusion of Concurrency Utilities for

Java EE (JSR 236) and JCache (JSR 107)

this below) and possible inclusion of Concurrency Utilities for Java EE (JSR 236) and JCache (JSR 107) Status





Approved by the JCP







Spec lead: Linda DeMichiel, Bill Shannon (Oracle)



Project: href="http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/pages/Home">javaee-spec.java.net



Mailing Lists Archive: href="http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/lists/jsr342-experts/archive">jsr342-expert@javaee-spec.java.net,

href="http://java.net/projects/javaee-spec/lists/users/archive">users@javaee-spec.java.net





An update and summary of the key features of differentspecifications in the Java EE 7 platform ...

JPA 2.1 (JSR

338)

Support for multi-tenancy

Support for stored procedures and vendor function

Update and Delete Critieria queries

Support for schema generation

Persistence Context synchronization

CDI injection into listeners





Status

Approved by the JCP







Spec lead: Linda DeMichiel (Oracle)



Project: jpa-spec.java.net



Mailing Lists Archive: href="http://java.net/projects/jpa-spec/lists/jsr338-experts/archive">jsr338-experts@jpa-spec.java.net,

href="http://java.net/projects/jpa-spec/lists/users/archive">users@jpa-sepc.java.net.

JAX-RS 2.0 (JSR

339)

Client API - low level using builder pattern and possibly a

higher level on top of that

higher level on top of that Hypermedia - easily create and process links associated with

resources





resources Form or Query parameter validation using Bean Validation

Closer integration with @Inject, etc

Server-side asynchronous request processing

Server-side content negotiation using "qs"





Status





Approved by the JCP, Early Draft href="http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr339/index.html">Available,

href="http://jax-rs-spec.java.net/nonav/2.0/apidocs/index.html">Draft

Javadocs





href="http://jax-rs-spec.java.net/nonav/2.0/apidocs/index.html">Draft Javadocs

Spec lead: Santiago Pericas-Geersten, Marek Potociar

(Oracle)





(Oracle)

Project: jaxrs-spec.java.net







Mailing List Archive: href="http://java.net/projects/jax-rs-spec/lists/jsr339-experts/archive">jsr339-experts@jax-rs-spec.java.net,

href="http://java.net/projects/jax-rs-spec/lists/users/archive">users@jax-rs-spec.java.net





Servlets 3.1 (href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=340">JSR 340)

Optimize the PaaS model for Web applications

Multi tenancy for security, session, resources, etc.

Asynchronous IO based on NIO2

Simplfiied asynchronous Servlets

Utilize Java EE concurrency utilities

Enable support for WebSockets

Status:

Approved by the JCP







Spec lead: Shing-Wai Chan, Rajiv Mordani (Oracle)



Project: servlet-spec.java.net



Mailing List Archive: href="http://java.net/projects/servlet-spec/lists/jsr340-experts/archive">jsr340-experts@servlet-spec.java.net,

href="http://java.net/projects/servlet-spec/lists/users/archive">users@servlet-spec.java.net





Expression Language 3.0 (href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=341">JSR 341)

Separate ELContext into parsing and evaluation contexts

Customizable EL coercion rules

Reference static methods and members directly in EL

expressions

expressions Adding operators like equality, string concatenation, and

sizeof etc.

sizeof etc. Integration with CDI such as generating events

before/during/after the expressions are evaluated

before/during/after the expressions are evaluated Status

Approved by the JCP



Spec lead: Kin-man Chung (Oracle)



Project: el-spec.java.net



Mailing List Archive: href="http://java.net/projects/el-spec/lists/jsr341-experts/archive">jsr-341-experts@el-spec.java.net,

users@el-spec.java.net





Java Message Server 2.0 (href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=343">JSR 343)

Ease of development - changes to the JMS programming model to

make the application development simpler and easier





make the application development simpler and easier Remove/Clarify ambiguities in the existing specification

Integration with CDI

Clarification of the relationship between JMS and other Java

EE specs

EE specs A new mandatory API to allow any JMS provider to be integrated

with any Java EE container

with any Java EE container Multi-tenancy and other cloud-related features from the

platform





platform Status

Approved by the JCP







Spec lead: Nigel Deakin (Oracle)



Project: jms-spec.java.net



Mailing List Archive: href="http://java.net/projects/jms-spec/lists/jsr343-experts/archive">jsr-343-experts@jms-spec.java.net,

href="http://java.net/projects/jms-spec/lists/users/archive">users@jms-spec.java.net





Java Server Faces 2.2 (href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=344">JSR 344)

Ease of Development - making configuration options dynamic,

make cc:interface in composite components optional, shorthand

URLs for Facelet tag libraries, integration with CDI, OSGi

support for JSF artifacts





make cc:interface in composite components optional, shorthand URLs for Facelet tag libraries, integration with CDI, OSGi support for JSF artifacts Support implementation of Portlet Bridge 2.0 (JSR 329)

Support for HTML5 features like HTML5 Forms, Metadata, Heading

and Section content model

and Section content model Flow management, Listener for page navigation events, and new

components like FileUpload and BackButton

components like FileUpload and BackButton Status

Approved by the JCP, Early Draft href="http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr344/">Available







Spec lead: Ed Burns (Oracle)



Project: href="http://javaserverfaces-spec-public.java.net/">javaserverfaces-spec-public.java.net



Mailing List Archive: href="http://java.net/projects/javaserverfaces-spec-public/lists/jsr344-experts/archive">jsr344-experts@javaserverfaces-spec-public.java.net,

href="http://java.net/projects/javaserverfaces-spec-public/lists/users/archive">users@javaserverfaces-spec-public.java.net





EJB 3.2 (href="http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=345">JSR 345)





Enhancements to the EJB architecture to enable PaaS, such as

multi-tenancy

multi-tenancy Factorization of container-managed transactions to use outside

EJB

EJB Further use of annotations

Alilgnment and integration with other specifications in the

platform





platform Status

Approved by the JCP



Spec lead: Marina Vatkina (Oracle)



Project: ejb-spec.java.net



Mailing List Archive: href="http://java.net/projects/ejb-spec/lists/jsr345-experts/archive">jsr-345-experts@ejb-spec.java.net,

href="http://java.net/projects/ejb-spec/lists/users/archive">users@ejb-spec.java.net





CDI 1.1 (JSR

346, more

details)

Global ordering of interceptors and decorators

API for managing built-in contexts

Embedded mode to allow startup outside Java EE container

Declarative control over which packages/beans are scanned in

an archive





an archive Injection for static members such as loggers

Send Servlet events as CDI event

Status





Approved by the JCP, Early Draft href="http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr346/index.html">Available







Spec lead: Pete Muir (RedHat)



Project: CDI

1.1 Development





1.1 Development

Mailing List Archive: href="http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/cdi-dev/">cdi-dev,

@jsr346





Bean Validation 1.1 (href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=349">JSR 349)

Integration with other Java EE specs JAX-RS: Validate parameters and return values on HTTP

calls JAXB: Convert constraints into XML schema descriptor



Method level validation

Apply constraints on group collection

Extend the model to support AND and OR style composition





Status

Approved by the JCP







Spec lead: Emmanuel Bernard (RedHat)



Project: beanvalidation.org







Mailing List Archive: href="http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/beanvalidation-dev/">beanvalidation-dev

JCache ( href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=107">JSR 107)

API and semantics for temporary, in-memory caching of Java

objects, including object creation, shared access, spooling,

invalidation, and consistency across JVMs

objects, including object creation, shared access, spooling, invalidation, and consistency across JVMs Package: javax.cache





Status

Approved by the JCP







Spec lead: Yannis Cosmadopoulos, Cameron Purdy (Oracle) and

Gregory Luck (Software AG)

Gregory Luck (Software AG)

Project page: href="https://github.com/jsr107/jsr107spec">jsr107spec







Mailing List Archive: href="http://groups.google.com/group/jsr107">jsr107@googlegroups.com





State Management ( href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=350">JSR 350)

API that can be used by applications and Java EE containers to

offload the responsibility of statement management into third

party providers with different QoS characteristics

offload the responsibility of statement management into third party providers with different QoS characteristics Java SE-based callers can access the state data by querying

the state providers

the state providers Providers with different QoS can be added and API callers can

query to meet their criteria





query to meet their criteria Package: javax.state and javax.state.provider





Status

Approved by the JCP



Spec lead: Mitch Upton (Oracle)



Project page: href="http://java.net/projects/java-state-managemen/">java-state-management.java.net







Mailing List Archive: href="http://java.net/projects/java-state-managemen/lists/jsr-350-experts/archive">jsr-350-experts@java-state-management.java.net,

href="http://java.net/projects/java-state-managemen/lists/jsr-350-users/archive">jsr-350-users@java-state-management.java.net





Batch Application for the Java

Platform (

Programming model for batch applications and a runtime for

scheduling and executing jobs

scheduling and executing jobs Defines Batch Job, Batch Job Step, Batch Application, Batch

Executor, and Batch Job Manager for the standard programming

model





Executor, and Batch Job Manager for the standard programming model Package: javax.batch

Status

Approved by the JCP



Spec lead: Chris Vignola (IBM)



Project page: jbatch.java.net







Mailing List Archive: href="http://java.net/projects/jbatch/lists/issues/archive">issues@jbatch.java.net

Concurrency Utilities for Java

EE (href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=236">JSR 236style="font-weight: bold;">)



Provides a clean, simple, independent API by building on JSR

166, making it appropriate for use within any Java EE contianer.

166, making it appropriate for use within any Java EE contianer. Package: javax.util.concurrent





Status

Approved by the JCP



Spec lead: Anthony Lai, Naresh Revanuru (Oracle)



Project page:







Mailing List Archive:

Java API for JSON Processing (JSR 353)



Produce and consume JSON text in a streaming fashion(similar to StAX API for XML)

Build a Java object model for JSON text using API classes(similar to DOM API for XML)

Status

Under JCP Review



Spec lead: Jitendra Kotamraju



Project Page: json-processing-spec



Mailing List Archive: jsr353-experts@json-processing-spec.java.net, users@json-processing-spec.java.net





The Expert Groups for most of the JSRs have already been formed

but you can still participate by joining the publicly visible

aliases and reviewing the drafts. All the JSRs following JCP 2.8

are run more transparently and some of the highlights on that

front are:



Names of the EG members are publicly visible

EG business reported on publicly readable alias

Schedule is public, current and updated regularly

Public can read/write to a wiki to discuss the status so far

Discussion board on jcp.org

Public read-only issue tracker

And you know all of this will be integrated in href="http://glassfish.org">GlassFish - the Reference

Implementation for Java EE 7!

Check out some early work at href="http://glassfish.org/javaone2011">glassfish.org/javaone2011.

