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[jsr366-experts] Status of the Java EE 8 specifications

From: Antonio Goncalves <antonio.goncalves_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:20:21 +0100

Hi all,

I was wondering if Java EE 8 was "*spec completed*" at the moment or if
there are other specs coming along. Correct me if I'm wrong, but so far we
have (I hope I'm not missing any) :

*New Specifications*

   -
*JCache (JSR 107) *
   -
*JSON-B 1.0 (JSR 367) *
   -
*MVC 1.0 (JSR 371) *
   - *Java EE Security 1.0 (JSR 375)*

*Updated Specifications*

   -
*CDI 2.0 (JSR 365) *
   -
*JMS 2.1 (JSR 368) *
   -
*Servlet 4.0 (JSR 369) *
   -
*JAX-RS 2.1 (JSR 370) *
   -
*JSF 2.3 (JSR 372) *
   -
*Java EE Management API 2.0 (JSR 373) *
   - *JSON-P 1.1 (JSR 374)*

*Any other coming along ?*

   - *Bean Validation (JSR 349)* : I know Emmanuel Bernard is planning of
   updating it to have the Java SE 8 goodies
   - *Common Annotations (JSR 250)* : The CDI 2.0 EG is thinking of
   introducing a broader usage of the @Priority annotation (not just for
   interceptor, but other things). Is there any plan to update the JSR 250 ?
   - *Concurrency Utilities for Java EE (JSR 236)* : It would be the
   perfect spec to have @Startup, @Schedule, @Asynchronous, @Pooled
   annotations. Any plans on that ?
   - Enterprise JavaBeans (JSR 345) : The CDI 2.0 is thinking of
   introducing the notion of self injection (e.g. @Self<MySelf> me) that would
   allow interception within the same bean. Updating the Interceptor spec
   could be interesting. Any plans ? If Interceptor is updated, would EJB be
   updated too ?
   - Java Persistence 2.1 (JSR 338) : any plan to support Date and Time API
   (JSR 310) mapping ? Is there a MR planned for JPA ?


   - *Java API for WebSocket (JSR 356)* : just wondering
   - *Batch (JSR 352)* : just wondering
   - *Data Grids (JSR 347)* : just wondering
   - *Expression Language 3.0 *(JSR 341) : just wondering
   - JAX-WS 2.0 (JSR 224) : just wondering



Thanks for any feedback

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