The ultimate Java version table (J2EE, Java EE, Servlet, JSP, JSTL)

Question

I'm looking for a component break down of Java EE (or previously know as J2EE) and Java SE

E.g.

J2EE 1.3: Servlet 2.3, JSP 1.2. JSTL 1.0, ...

J2EE 1.4: Servlet 2.4, JSP 2.0, JSTL 1.1, ...

Java EE 1.5: Servlet 2.5, JSP 2.1, JSTL 1.2, ...

In a simple table

It can be extracted from: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.3/docs/ , http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/ and http://java.sun.com/javaee/technologies/javaee5.jsp but I'm looking for a simple table.

Is there something like this out there? Or should I write one myself?

Answer 1

Here is one:

Also I want to add some information about Java EE7:

In Java EE 7, no changes were made to JSP and JSTL because these specifications have not been updated.

Expression Language has been removed from JSP and now has its own JSR (341).

Servlets and JSF have both been updated.

WebSocket 1.0 was introduced in Java EE 7.

And also please see this image for Java EE7:

Let me add this as well:

Answer 2

Wikipedia has a Java EE version history. Not in a table, but you can easily bake one yourself based on that if you want. To make it available to everyone, you could just add it as a table to the very same Wikipedia page. The current Java EE 6 uses by the way Servlet 3.0 / JSP 2.2 / JSTL 1.2.

JSP 2.2 is by the way nothing more than a "maintenance release" of JSP 2.1.

Answer 3

In case anyone was still looking for a tabular format ... I had a crack at a java web specs. table as a side-note to a blog post about EL errors. I haven't updated it to include Servlet 3.0 specs.

Answer 4

This one is also nice:

+=============+================+====================+=============================================================================+
|   VERSION   |      DATE      |   JAVA EE / JDK    |                             FEATURES / CHANGES                              |
+=============+================+====================+=============================================================================+
| Servlet 4.0 | September 2017 | JavaEE 8           | HTTP/2                                                                      |
+-------------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Servlet 3.1 | May 2013       | JavaEE 7           | Non-blocking I/O, HTTP protocol upgrade mechanism                           |
+-------------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Servlet 3.0 | December 2009  | JavaEE 6, JavaSE 6 | Pluggability, Ease of development, Async Servlet, Security, File Uploading  |
+-------------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Servlet 2.5 | September 2005 | JavaEE 5, JavaSE 5 | Requires JavaSE 5, supports annotation                                      |
+-------------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Servlet 2.4 | November 2003  | J2EE 1.4, J2SE 1.3 | web.xml uses XML Schema                                                     |
+-------------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Servlet 2.3 | August 2001    | J2EE 1.3, J2SE 1.2 | Addition of Filter                                                          |
+-------------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Servlet 2.2 | August 1999    | J2EE 1.2, J2SE 1.2 | Becomes part of J2EE, introduced independent web applications in .war files |
+-------------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Servlet 2.1 | November 1998  | Unspecified        | First official specification, added RequestDispatcher, ServletContext       |
+-------------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Servlet 2.0 |                | JDK 1.1            | Part of Java Servlet Development Kit 2.0                                    |
+-------------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Servlet 1.0 | June 1997      |                    |                                                                             |
+-------------+----------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33346887/8682071