Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Release Notes

Java EE 6 Standards

Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 implements the Java EE standards listed in the following table. The table also indicates the distributions in which the implementation of a standard is available.

X indicates that the implementation is available in the distribution.

- indicates that the implementation is not available in the distribution.

Java EE Standard	Java Specification Request (JSR)	Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Full Platform Profile	Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Web Profile
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6	JSR 316	X	X
Java Servlet Technology 3.0	JSR 315	X	X
JavaServer Pages 2.2	JSR 245	X	X
Expression Language 2.2	JSR 245	X	X
Debugging Support for Other Languages 1.0	JSR 45	X	X
Standard Tag Library for JavaServer Pages 1.2	JSR 52	X	X
JavaServer Faces 2.0	JSR 314	X	X
Common Annotations for the Java Platform 1.1	JSR 250	X	X
Java Transaction API 1.1	JSR 907	X	X
Java Persistence API 2.0	JSR 317	X	X
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 Lite	JSR 318	X	X
Managed Beans 1.0	JSR 316	X	X
Interceptors 1.1	JSR 318	X	X
Dependency Injection for Java 1.0	JSR 330	X	X
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 Full API	JSR 318	X	X
Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE 1.0	JSR 299	X	X
Java API for RESTful Web Service (JAX-RS) 1.1	JSR 311	X	X
Bean Validation 1.0	JSR 303	X	-
Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6	JSR 322	X	-
Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.2	JSR 224	X	-
Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.2	JSR 222	X	-
Implementing Enterprise Web Services 1.3	JSR 109	X	-
Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform 2.1	JSR 181	X	-
Java Message Service API 1.1	JSR 914	X	-
JavaMail 1.4	JSR 919	X	-
Java Authorization Contract for Containers 1.4	JSR 115	X	-
Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers 1.1	JSR 196	X	-
Java EE Application Deployment 1.2	JSR 88	X	-
J2EE Management 1.1	JSR 77	X	-
Java API for XML-Based Remote Procedure Calls (JAX-RPC) 1.1	JSR 101	X	-
Java API for XML-Based Registries (JAXR) 1.0	JSR 93	X	-

Building on these standards, Enterprise Server v3 provides a number of extensions, including the following:

Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML): Retrieves and displays new data for a portion of a web page without affecting the rest of the page.
Metro: A web services stack that implements Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) and Java APIs for XML Web Services 2.1 (JAX-WS 2.1).
Grizzly: A framework for building scalable and robust servers using New I/O (NIO) APIs, which make scaling to thousands of users possible. The ability to embed components that support HTTP, Bayeux Protocol, Java Servlet API, and Comet is provided.