Java EE 7 Approved!

Java EE 7 is officially done as of this week.  Linda DeMichiel just announced on the Oracle blog that the Java EE 7 Platform JSR, as well as the more compact Web Profile JSR for this EE version, have both been approved by the Java Community Process.

Here's the complete list of 14 JSRs and 9 MRs (maintenance releases):

JSRs:

• Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 (JSR 342) 
• Concurrency Utilities for Java EE 1.0 (JSR 236) (New to JEE!)
• Java Persistence 2.1 (JSR 338)
• JAX-RS: The Java API for RESTful Web Services 2.0 (JSR 339)
• Java Servlet 3.1 (JSR 340)
• Expression Language 3.0 (JSR 341)
• Java Message Service 2.0 (JSR 343)
• JavaServer Faces 2.2 (JSR 344)
• Enterprise JavaBeans 3.2 (JSR 345)
• Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE 1.1 (JSR 346)
• Bean Validation 1.1 (JSR 349)
• Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0 (JSR 352) (New to JEE!)
• Java API for JSON Processing 1.0 (JSR 353) (New to JEE!)
• Java API for WebSocket 1.0 (JSR 356) (New to JEE!)

MRs:

• Web Services for Java EE 1.4 (JSR 109)
• Java Authorization Service Provider Contract for Containers 1.5 (JACC 1.5) (JSR 115)
• Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers 1.1 (JASPIC 1.1) (JSR 196)
• JavaServer Pages 2.3 (JSR 245)
• Common Annotations for the Java Platform 1.2 (JSR 250)
• Interceptors 1.2 (JSR 318)
• Java EE Connector Architecture 1.7 (JSR 322)
• Java Transaction API 1.2 (JSR 907)
• JavaMail 1.5 (JSR 919)

Thanks to Reza Rahman for sharing this news with us right when it hit the wires.  
Look for the Java EE 7 GlassFish Reference Implementation in the next few weeks.

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