Java EE 7 programming model support

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

Java EE 7 technologies

Table 1. Java EE 7 support.

A list of Java EE technologies, subdivided into sections for web services, web applications, enterprise applications, management and security, and Java EE-related specifications in Java SE. For each technology there is a specification reference, any related Liberty feature, and an indication of whether the technology is supported by WebSphere Application Server traditional, by Liberty, by WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core and by Open Liberty. The WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core edition contains a subset of the Liberty features that are available in the other product editions.
Technology Specification reference Liberty feature traditional Liberty Liberty Core Open Liberty
             
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7) JSR 342 javaee-7.0

javaeeClient-7.0

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Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 7 Web Profile JSR 342 webProfile-7.0

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Web services technologies            
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) 2.0 JSR 339 jaxrs-2.0

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Implementing Enterprise Web Services 1.4 JSR 109  

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Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.2 JSR 224 jaxws-2.2 ✔ ✔   ✔
Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Basic Profile WS-I Basic Profile 1.2

WS-I Basic Profile 2.0

 jaxws-2.2 ✔ ✔   ✔
Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.2 JSR 222 jaxb-2.2 ✔ ✔   ✔
Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform JSR 181   ✔ ✔   ✔
Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) 1.1 (Optional) JSR 101   ✔      
Java API for WSDL (JWSDL) JSR 110   ✔ ✔   ✔
SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) 1.31 JSR 67   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) 1.0 (Optional) JSR 93   ✔      
             
Web application technologies            
Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P) 1.0 JSR 353 jsonp-1.0

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Java Servlet 3.1 JSR 340 servlet-3.1

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JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.2 JSR 344 jsf-2.2

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JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.3 JSR 245 jsp-2.3

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Expression Language (EL) 3.0 JSR 341 el-3.0

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Standard Tag Library for JavaServer Pages (JSTL) 1.2 JSR 52   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Debugging Support for Other Languages 1.0 JSR 45   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
WebSocket 1.1 JSR 356 websocket-1.1

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WebSocket 1.0 JSR 356 websocket-1.0

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Enterprise application technologies            
EE Concurrency Utilities 1.0 JSR 236 concurrent-1.0

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Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java (Web Beans) 1.2 JSR 346 cdi-1.2

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Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java (Web Beans) 1.1 JSR 346 cdi-1.2 2   ✔ ✔ ✔
Dependency Injection for Java 1.0 JSR 330   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Bean Validation 1.1 JSR 349 beanValidation-1.1

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Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.2 full JSR 345 ejb-3.23

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Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.2 Lite JSR 345 ejbLite-3.2

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Interceptors 1.2 JSR 318  

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Java EE Connector Architecture (JCA) 1.7 JSR 322 jca-1.7

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Java Persistence 2.1 JSR 338 jpa-2.1

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Common Annotations for the Java Platform 1.24 JSR 250  

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Java Message Service (JMS) API 2.0 JSR 343 jms-2.0

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Java Transaction API (JTA) 1.2 JSR 907  

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JavaMail 1.5 JSR 919 javaMail-1.5

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Batch Applications for Java Platform 1.0 JSR 352 batch-1.0

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Management and security technologies            
Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers (JASPIC) 1.1 JSR 196 jaspic-1.1

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Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC) 1.5 JSR 115 jacc-1.5

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Java EE Application Deployment 1.2 (Optional) JSR 88   ✔      
J2EE Management 1.15 JSR 77 j2eeManagement-1.1

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Java EE-related specifications in Java SE            
Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.4 JSR 206   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) 4.1 JSR 221 jdbc-4.1

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Java Management Extensions (JMX) 2.0 JSR 255   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF) 1.1 JSR 925   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Streaming API for XML (StAX) 1.0 JSR 173   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔

Programming model extensions

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

1 SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) is also referred to as Java APIs for XML Messaging.
2 Java EE 7 defines CDI 1.1. The CDI maintenance release is CDI 1.2. The cdi-1.2 feature supports both CDI 1.1 and CDI 1.2.
3 The ejb-3.2 feature includes the following EJB sub-features: ejbLite-3.1, ejbHome-3.2, ejbPersistentTimer-3.2, ejbRemote-3.2, and mdb-3.2.
4 Common Annotations 1.2 added the javax.annotation.Priority single annotation type, which Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.2 uses. For information about CDI 1.2, see Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.2.
5 To invoke Management EJB APIs, the server configuration must have both the j2eeManagement-1.1 and ejbRemote-3.2 features in a feature manager. After both features are in the server configuration, you can invoke Management EJB API through JNDI name lookup. The Management EJB binding name (JNDI lookup name) is ejb/mejb/MEJB.