Java EE 8 Takes Off!

A big day for Java EE - Java EE 8 is now officially launched as JSR 366 via the JCP process. As you might have expected the primary focus areas are HTTP 2/HTML 5 support, CDI/managed bean alignment, cloud support and Java SE alignment.

Here is some of the very high level content:

Web Standards

• HTTP 2
• Server-Sent Events (SSE)
• JSON binding
• Action oriented web framework to complement JSF
• More support for Hypermedia
• Enhancements to JSON-P, WebSocket and JAX-RS

Managed Bean/CDI Alignment

Final Results from our Java EE 8 Community Survey

In the final phase of our Java EE 8 Community Survey, we asked community members to tell us how they would prioritize among the most frequently requested features from parts 1 and 2 of the survey.

The areas that we selected for this prioritization exercise correspond to those features that received at least 60% “Yes” votes in parts 1 and 2. (For a summary of the results from part 1 and 2, see here.)

Survey participants were given 100 “points” to allocate among these features, as shown below.