Jakarta EE components overview

Jakarta EE is the successor of Java Enterprise Edition. The name change follows the transition of the governance from Oracle to the Eclipse organisation. Jakarta EE9 is simply taking over from Java EE 8 without functional changes. It changes package namespaces to jakarta.* and  removes some obsolete API's. You can find the Java EE evolution up to Java EE8 in an earlier post. From Jakarta EE9 the components are evolving.

Jakarta EE release	9	10	11
year	2020	2022	2025
Requires Java SE	8	11	17
Activation	2.0	2.1
Annotations	2.0.0	2.1	3.0
Authentication	2.0.0	3.0	3.1
Authorization	2.0.0	2.1	3.0
Jakarta Batch	2.0.0	2.1.0
Concurrency	2.0.0	3.0	2.1
Connectors	2.0.0	2.1.0
Contexts and Dependency Injection	3.0	4.0	4.1
Data			1.0
Enterprise Beans	4.0
Expression Language	4.0.0	5.0.0	6.0
Faces	3.0.0	4.0	4.1
Interceptors	2.0	2.1	2.2
JSON Binding	2.0.0	3.0.0
JSON Processing	2.0.0	2.1
Mail	2.0.0	2.1
Messaging	3.0.0	3.1.0
(Server) Pages	3.0	3.1.0	4.0
Persistence	3.0	3.1	3.2
RESTful Web Services	3.0	3.1	4.0
Security	2.0	3.0	4.0
Servlet	5.0	6.0	6.1
Standard Tag Library	2.0.0	3.0.0
Transactions	2.0.0
(Bean) Validation	3.0		3.1
WebSocket	2.0	2.1	2.2
XML Binding	3.0	4.0	X
XML Web Services	3.0	4.0	X
XML Web Services (SOAP with Attachments)	2.0	3.0	X

If a cell is empty in the above table, the version is the same as in the previous release.

An X means a specification is removed.

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