1.2. Prerequisites

1.2.1. Become Familiar with Java Enterprise Edition 6

1.2.1.1. Overview of EE 6 Profiles

Java Enterprise Edition 6 (EE 6) includes support for multiple profiles, or subsets of APIs. The only two profiles that the EE 6 specification defines are the Full Profile and the Web Profile.
EE 6 Full Profile includes all APIs and specifications included in the EE 6 specification. EE 6 Web Profile includes a subset of APIs which are useful to web developers.
JBoss EAP 6 is a certified implementation of the Java Enterprise Edition 6 Full Profile and Web Profile specifications.

1.2.1.2. Java Enterprise Edition 6 Web Profile

The Web Profile is one of two profiles defined by the Java Enterprise Edition 6 specification. It is designed for web application development. The other profile defined by the Java Enterprise Edition 6 specification is the Full Profile. See Section 1.2.1.3, “Java Enterprise Edition 6 Full Profile” for more details.

Java EE 6 Web Profile Requirements

  • Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6
  • Java Web Technologies

    • Servlet 3.0 (JSR 315)
    • JSP 2.2 and Expression Language (EL) 1.2
    • JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0 (JSR 314)
    • Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL) for JSP 1.2
    • Debugging Support for Other Languages 1.0 (JSR 45)
  • Enterprise Application Technologies

    • Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) (JSR 299)
    • Dependency Injection for Java (JSR 330)
    • Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 Lite (JSR 318)
    • Java Persistence API 2.0 (JSR 317)
    • Common Annotations for the Java Platform 1.1 (JSR 250)
    • Java Transaction API (JTA) 1.1 (JSR 907)
    • Bean Validation (JSR 303)

1.2.1.3. Java Enterprise Edition 6 Full Profile

The Java Enterprise Edition 6 (EE 6) specification defines a concept of profiles, and defines two of them as part of the specification. Besides the items supported in the Java Enterprise Edition 6 Web Profile ( Section 1.2.1.2, “Java Enterprise Edition 6 Web Profile”), the Full Profile supports the following APIs. JBoss Enterprise Edition 6 supports the Full Profile.

Items Included in the EE 6 Full Profile

  • EJB 3.1 (not Lite) (JSR 318)
  • Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6 (JSR 322)
  • Java Message Service (JMS) API 1.1 (JSR 914)
  • JavaMail 1.4 (JSR 919)
  • Web Service Technologies

    • Jax-RS RESTful Web Services 1.1 (JSR 311)
    • Implementing Enterprise Web Services 1.3 (JSR 109)
    • JAX-WS Java API for XML-Based Web Services 2.2 (JSR 224)
    • Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.2 (JSR 222)
    • Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform (JSR 181)
    • Java APIs for XML-based RPC 1.1 (JSR 101)
    • Java APIs for XML Messaging 1.3 (JSR 67)
    • Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) 1.0 (JSR 93)
  • Management and Security Technologies

    • Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers 1.0 (JSR 196)
    • Java Authentication Contract for Containers 1.3 (JSR 115)
    • Java EE Application Deployment 1.2 (JSR 88)
    • J2EE Management 1.1 (JSR 77)