New Features in Java Enterprise Edition 6 (JEE 6)

Latest version of Java Enterprise Edition is focused on eae of development and simplicity. Key goals of this version are

  • Extensibility – supports for additional technologies and frameworks
  • Profiles – support for creating custom profiles based on application scope or requirement.
  • Pruning

New Features introduced in this edition are

  • Simplified EJB 3.1
    • No local business interface – one step further from EJB 3.0 specification, EJB 3.1 specifications removes mandatory business interface
    • Singleton EJB – to share application wide data and support concurrent access.
    • EJB 3.1 can be part of war file directly without creating a separate jar file

EAR >>
      WAR >>
            JSP/Static Pages
            WEB_INF >>
                  web.xml
              lib >>
              classes >>
                         Servlet and Other classes
                         EJB1
                         EJB2
             ejb-jar.xml

    • Embeddable API for executing EJB in Java SE environment: The idea behind this feature is to allow EJBs to run in Java SE environments
    • Asynchronous Session Bean: A session bean can support asynchronous method invocations.
    • EJB Lite

 

  • Servlet 3.0 – some of the major changes in  Servlet 3.0 are
    • Annotation support
    • Web Fragment – Logical partitioning of web.xml so different embedded framework  such as  Structs and  JavaServer Faces
    • Support for Asynchronous processing  to support AJAX.

  • JAX-RS 1.1 – API for RESTful web services . It supports  annotation based development.

  • JCDI – support for injecting lifecycle component , dependencies.

 

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