Java EE 7 programming model support

The WebSphere® Application Server traditional product complies with Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 7. The Java EE 7 technologies table and links show the extent to which each of the major server products supports the full WebSphere Application Server programming model.

Java EE 7 technologies

Table 1. Java EE 7 support by product . A list of Java EE technologies, subdivided into sections for Web Profile, Full Platform, and other technologies. For each technology there is a specification reference and an indication of whether the technology is supported by WebSphere Application Server traditional, by Liberty, and by Liberty Core. The Liberty Core edition contains a subset of the Liberty features that are available in the other product editions.
Technology Specification reference traditional Liberty Liberty Core
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7) JSR 342  
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 Web Profile JSR 342
Web Profile
Bean Validation 1.1 JSR 349
Common Annotations for the Java Platform 1.21 JSR 250
Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java (CDI) 1.2 JSR 346
Debugging Support for Other Languages 1.0 JSR 45
Dependency Injection for Java 1.0 JSR 330
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.2 Lite JSR 345
Expression Language (EL) 3.0 JSR 341
Interceptors 1.2 JSR 318
Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P) 1.0 JSR 353
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) 2.0 JSR 339
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) 4.1 JSR 221
Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.1 JSR 338
Java Servlet 3.1 JSR 340
Java Transaction API (JTA) 1.2 JSR 907
JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.2 JSR 344
JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.3 JSR 245
Standard Tag Library for JavaServer Pages (JSTL) 1.2 JSR 52
WebSocket 1.1 JSR 356
WebSocket 1.0 JSR 356
Full Platform
Batch Applications for Java Platform 1.0 JSR 352  
EE Concurrency Utilities 1.0 JSR 236
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.2 full JSR 345
Implementing Enterprise Web Services 1.4 JSR 109  
J2EE Management 1.1 JSR 77  
Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.2 JSR 224  
Java API for WSDL (JWSDL) JSR 110  
Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.2 JSR 222  
Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers (JASPIC) 1.1 JSR 196
Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC) 1.5 JSR 115
Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) 1.7 JSR 322  
JavaMail 1.5 JSR 919
Java Message Service (JMS) API 2.0 JSR 343  
SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) 1.32 JSR 67
Streaming API for XML (StAX) 1.0 JSR 173
Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform JSR 181  
Other technologies
Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) 1.1 (Optional)3 JSR 101    
Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.4 JSR 206
Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) 1.0 (Optional)3 JSR 93    
Java EE Application Deployment 1.2 (Optional)3 JSR 88    
JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) 1.1 JSR 925
Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Basic Profile WS-I Basic Profile 1.2

WS-I Basic Profile 2.0

 

Programming model extensions

For a list of WebSphere programming model extensions, see "WebSphere extensions" in the WebSphere Application Server: Overview topic.

1 Common Annotations 1.2 added one new annotation type, javax.annotation.Priority, which Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.2 uses.
2 SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) is also referred to as Java APIs for XML Messaging.
3 Optional technologies are deprecated. See Deprecated features.