Awesome Java EE/Jakarta EE 8 Resources

A centric checklist of awesome Java EE 8 resources, including news, blog entries, books, sample codes etc.

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Java EE 8 news and community activities

• Java EE 8 and GlassFish 5.0 Released!, the Oracle official announcement.
• Java EE Guardians
• Tell Oracle to Move Forward Java EE as a Critical Part of the Global IT Industry
• Opening up Java EE
• Opening up Java EE - An update
• We Need Your Help - Moving Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation
• Oracle Joins Eclipse MicroProfile Project
• Joint Community Open Letter on Java EE Naming and Packaging
• Public Review of Java MVC 1.0 Specification is Now Open
• Vote for Java EE's New Name
• From Java EE to Jakarta EE: the Java EE Guardians Rebranding Debate with Oracle
• Java EE 8 and the Open Future of Java EE

Jakarta EE 8(The next generation of Java EE)

• New home of Jakarta EE
• Jakarta One
• Jakarta Blog
• Eclipse EE4j Project
• Jakarta EE Tutorial

Books

• Java EE 8 Recipes by Apress
• Building Modern Web Applications With Jakarta EE, NoSQL Databases and Microservices

Java EE 8 learning resources

• Java EE home page on Github, the official Java EE 8 Tutorial, and the reference implementation Glassfish v5.
• Oracle Java EE 8 SDK, includes the open-source Glassfish distribution, sample codes and tutorials.
• Eclipse MicroProfile picks up the original proposals that had been abandoned in Java EE 8, and it targets Microservice and brings Java EE to cloud native applications.
• Java EE 8 @ JavaONE 2017
• Java EE 8 Hands On Lab
• Java Magazine November/December 2017 Edtion focuses on Java EE 8 update
• What's new in Java EE 8, a Java EE 8 overview from IBM DeveloperWorks
• The Top 5 New Features in Java EE 8
• Java EE 8 by example, ads for myself 😄

CDI 2.0

• Tour around Weld 3
• What’s new in CDI 2.0
• A look on CDI 2.0 EDR1
• mp911de/cdi-2.0 @ Github

JSF 2.3

• What's new in JSF 2.3? , by Arjan Tijms, a must-read article when upgrading to JSF 2.3.
• Migrate your @ManagedProperty annotations

JPA 2.2

• What's new in JPA 2.2
• JPA 2.2’s new getResultStream() method and how you should NOT use it
• What’s new in JPA 2.2 – Stream the result of a Query execution
• What’s new in JPA 2.2 – Java 8 Date and Time Types
• Handy Improvements in JPA 2.2

Bean Validation 2.0

• Bean Validation 2.0
• Bean Validation 2.0 - A new JSR is born!
• And here comes Hibernate Validator 6.0 Final with Bean Validation 2.0 support
• Validating Container Elements with Bean Validation 2.0

JSON-P 1.1

• Public Review of JSON-P Specification 1.1 is Now Open

JSON-B 1.0

• JSON Binding API - Getting Started
• Gettting Started with JSON-B
• Get started with the JSON Binding API, Part 2,Part 3, Part 4, JSON-B series from IBM DeveloperWorks

JAX-RS 2.1

• Java API for RESTful Web Services 2.1 Released
• JAX-RS 2.1 Reactive Client API
• JAX-RS 2.1 New Feature Introduction
• Jersey Client Dependencies for JAX-RS 2.1

Servlet 4.0

• Ed Burns Discusses HTTP/2 and the Java EE Servlet 4 Specification
• First Look at HTTP/2 Server Push in Java Servlet 4.0 Specification

Java EE Security 1.0

• What's new in Java EE Security API 1.0? , by Arjan Tijms, a must read blog entry for Java EE Security.
• Playing with Java EE Security (JSR-375) — Soteria