j2ee

• Versions

• Profile

• Servlet

• EJB

• application servers

  • Open Source

• J2EE tutorial

• glassfish

• IDE

  • IBM Rational Application Developer

  • Eclipse

Versions

Release	Year	Major Version
J2SE 1.4	2002	48
J2SE 5.0	2004	49
Java SE 6	2006	50
Java SE 7	2011	51
Java SE 8	2014	52
Java SE 9	2017	53
Java SE 10 (18.3)	2018	54

J2EE 1.4 (November 11, 2003)
Java EE 5 (May 11, 2006)
Java EE 6 (December 10, 2009)
Java EE 7 (June 12, 2013)
Java EE 8 (September 21, 2017)

Specification	Java EE 6[9]	Java EE 7[3]	Java EE 8[5]
Servlet	3	3.1	4
JavaServer Pages (JSP)	2.2	2.3	2.3
Unified Expression Language (EL)	2.2	3	3
JavaServer Faces (JSF)	2	2.2	2.3
Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)	1.1	2	2.1
Java API for WebSocket (WebSocket)	n/a	1	1.1
Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P)	n/a	1	1.1
Common Annotations for the Java Platform (JSR-250)	1.1	1.2	1.3
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)	3.1 Lite	3.2 Lite	3.2
Java Transaction API (JTA)	1.1	1.2	1.2
Java Persistence API (JPA)	2	2.1	2.2
Bean Validation	1	1.1	2
Interceptors	1.1	1.2	1.2
Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE Platform	1	1.1	2

Profile

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24239978/java-ee-web-profile-vs-java-ee-full-platform

Servlet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_servlet

Servlet API version	Released	JSR Number	Platform	Important Changes
Servlet 4.0	Sep 2017	369	Java EE 8	HTTP/2
Servlet 3.1	May 2013	340	Java EE 7	Non-blocking I/O, HTTP protocol upgrade mechanism (WebSocket)[7]
Servlet 3.0	December 2009	315	Java EE 6, Java SE 6	Pluggability, Ease of development, Async Servlet, Security, File Uploading
Servlet 2.5	September 2005	154	Java EE 5, Java SE 5	Requires Java SE 5, supports annotation
Servlet 2.4	November 2003	154	J2EE 1.4, J2SE 1.3	web.xml uses XML Schema

EJB

application servers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_application_servers#Java

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Platform,_Enterprise_Edition#Certified_referencing_runtimes

Open Source

https://github.com/javaee/glassfish https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly

J2EE tutorial

https://javaee.github.io/firstcup/creating-example002.html

glassfish

https://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/glassfish-docker-images-%E2%80%93-update

docker run -ti -e ADMIN_PASSWORD=<your-secret-password> -p 4848:4848 -p 8080:8080 -d oracle/glassfish
docker run -ti -p 4848:4848 -p 8080:8080 -d oracle/glassfish   # Auto Generated `admin` password

IDE

IBM Rational Application Developer

Tutorial: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/05/719_app/index.html

Eclipse

eclipse.ini

-vm
path_to\jdk1.8.0_60\bin\javaw.exe