Neil McAllister | The Register | 13th June 2013
New release arrives with GlassFish, NetBeans support
Oracle has announced public availability of Java EE 7, the first major release of the enterprise formulation of Java since the database giant took control of the platform in 2010. The last version shipped way back in 2009.
Support for HTML5 and related technologies is one of the key themes of this release. Among the new APIs included with Java EE 7 are version 2.0 of the Java API for Asynchronous RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) and new APIs to support WebSockets and JSON processing.
Backend enterprise applications will also benefit. Java EE 7 now allows batch operations to be split into manageable chunks for improved OLTP processing, and it includes a new API that allows developers to define multithreaded concurrent tasks more easily. Java Message Service has also been improved.
A full list of the features that made it past the Java Community Process final approval ballot – the results of which were announced on April 30 – is available here.
Equally notable, however, are some of the planned features that didn’t make it into this release. As is becoming a pattern for the Java development process under Oracle, a number of technologies that were originally slated for Java EE 7 were pushed forward to the next version.
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