
It is low level and other Jakarta EE specifications rely on it

Java EE was maintained by Oracle under the Java Community Process.

The platform was known as Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition or J2EE from version 1.2, until the name was changed to Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE in version 1.5. As with other Java Community Process specifications, providers must meet certain conformance requirements in order to declare their products as Jakarta EE compliant.Įxamples of contexts in which Jakarta EE referencing runtimes are used are: e-commerce, accounting, banking information systems. The specification defines APIs (application programming interface) and their interactions.

Jakarta EE is defined by its specification.
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Jakarta EE applications are run on reference runtimes, that can be microservices or application servers, which handle transactions, security, scalability, concurrency and management of the components it is deploying. Jakarta EE, formerly Java Platform, Enterprise Edition ( Java EE) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition ( J2EE), is a set of specifications, extending Java SE with specifications for enterprise features such as distributed computing and web services.
