Java EE 6 Highlights

The Java EE 6 platform includes the following new features:

• Profiles, configurations of the Java EE platform targeted at specific classes of applications. Specifically, the Java EE 6 platform introduces a Web Profile targeted at web applications, as well as a Full Profile that contains all Java EE technologies.

• New technologies, including the following:

  • Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)

  • Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE Platform (JSR-299), informally known as Web Beans

  • Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers (JASPIC)

• New features for Enterprise JavaBeans^TM (EJB^TM) components (see Enterprise JavaBeans Technology for details)

• New features for servlets (see Java Servlet Technology for details)

• New features for JavaServer^TM Faces components (see JavaServer Faces Technology for details)