Java^TM Platform, Enterprise Edition 6
API Specification

This document is the API specification for version 6 of the Java^TM Platform, Enterprise Edition.

Packages

javax.activation	The JavaBeans(TM) Activation Framework is used by the JavaMail(TM) API to manage MIME data.
javax.annotation	This package defines the common annotations.
javax.annotation.security	This package contains the security common annotations.
javax.annotation.sql
javax.decorator	Annotations relating to decorators.
javax.ejb	Contains the Enterprise JavaBeans classes and interfaces that define the contracts between the enterprise bean and its clients and between the enterprise bean and the EJB container.
javax.ejb.embeddable	Defines the classes for the EJB 3.1 Embeddable API.
javax.ejb.spi	Defines interfaces that are implemented by the EJB container.
javax.el	Provides the API for the Unified Expression Language 2.2 used by the JSP 2.2 and JSF 2.0 technologies.
javax.enterprise.context	Annotations and interfaces relating to scopes and contexts.
javax.enterprise.context.spi	The custom context SPI.
javax.enterprise.deploy.model	Provides Tool Vendor implementation classes.
javax.enterprise.deploy.model.exceptions	Provides Tool Vendor exception implementation classes.
javax.enterprise.deploy.shared	Provides shared objects for Tool Vendor and Product Vendor implementation classes.
javax.enterprise.deploy.shared.factories	Provides shared factory manager object for Tool Vendor and Product Vendor implementation classes.
javax.enterprise.deploy.spi	Provides J2EE Product Vendor implementation classes.
javax.enterprise.deploy.spi.exceptions	Provides J2EE Product Vendor deployment exception implementation classes.
javax.enterprise.deploy.spi.factories	Provides J2EE Product Vendor deployment factory implementation classes.
javax.enterprise.deploy.spi.status	Provides J2EE Product Vendor deployment status implementation classes.
javax.enterprise.event	Annotations and interfaces relating to events.
javax.enterprise.inject	Annotations relating to bean and stereotype definition, built-in qualifiers, and interfaces and classes relating to programmatic lookup.
javax.enterprise.inject.spi	The portable extension integration SPI.
javax.enterprise.util	Contains shared, general-purpose helper classes and annotations.
javax.faces	Top level classes for the JavaServer(tm) Faces API.
javax.faces.application	APIs that are used to link an application's business logic objects to JavaServer Faces, as well as convenient pluggable mechanisms to manage the execution of an application that is based on JavaServer Faces.
javax.faces.bean	These javadoc files constitute the “Faces Managed Bean Annotation Specification for Containers Conforming to Servlet 2.5 and Beyond”
javax.faces.component	Fundamental APIs for user interface components.
javax.faces.component.behavior	APIs for attaching additional behavior to user interface components.
javax.faces.component.html	Specialized user interface component classes for HTML.
javax.faces.component.visit	APIs for traversing a user interface component view.
javax.faces.context	Classes and interfaces defining per-request state information.
javax.faces.convert	Contains classes and interfaces defining converters.
javax.faces.el	DEPRECATED Classes and interfaces for evaluating and processing reference expressions.
javax.faces.event	Interfaces describing events and event listeners, and concrete event implementation classes.
javax.faces.lifecycle	Classes and interfaces defining lifecycle management for the JavaServer Faces implementation.
javax.faces.model	Standard model data beans for JavaServer Faces.
javax.faces.render	Classes and interfaces defining the rendering model.
javax.faces.validator	Interface defining the validator model, and concrete validator implementation classes.
javax.faces.view	Classes for defining a View Declaration Language (VDL) for authoring JavaServer Faces user interfaces.
javax.faces.view.facelets	This package contains public classes for the Java code API of Facelets.
javax.faces.webapp	Classes required for integration of JavaServer Faces into web applications, including a standard servlet, base classes for JSP custom component tags, and concrete tag implementations for core tags.
javax.inject	This package specifies a means for obtaining objects in such a way as to maximize reusability, testability and maintainability compared to traditional approaches such as constructors, factories, and service locators (e.g., JNDI). This process, known as dependency injection, is beneficial to most nontrivial applications.
javax.interceptor	Contains annotations and interfaces for defining interceptor methods, interceptor classes and for binding interceptor classes to target classes.
javax.jms	The Java Message Service (JMS) API provides a common way for Java programs to create, send, receive and read an enterprise messaging system's messages.
javax.jws
javax.jws.soap
javax.mail	The JavaMailTM API provides classes that model a mail system.
javax.mail.event	Listeners and events for the JavaMail API.
javax.mail.internet	Classes specific to Internet mail systems.
javax.mail.search	Message search terms for the JavaMail API.
javax.mail.util	JavaMail API utility classes.
javax.management.j2ee	Provides the J2EE Management Enterprise Bean component (MEJB) interfaces.
javax.management.j2ee.statistics	Provides the standard interfaces for accessing performance data from J2EE managed objects
javax.persistence
javax.persistence.criteria
javax.persistence.metamodel
javax.persistence.spi
javax.resource	The javax.resource package is the top-level package for the Java EE Connector API specification.
javax.resource.cci	The javax.resource.cci package contains API specification for the Common Client Interface (CCI).
javax.resource.spi	The javax.resource.spi package contains APIs for the system contracts defined in the Java EE Connector Architecture specification.
javax.resource.spi.endpoint	This package contains system contracts for service endpoint interactions.
javax.resource.spi.security	The javax.resource.spi.security package contains APIs for the security management contract.
javax.resource.spi.work	This package contains APIs for the Work Management, Generic and Security Work Context contracts.
javax.security.auth.message	This package defines the core interfaces of the JSR 196 message authentication SPI.
javax.security.auth.message.callback	This package defines callback interfaces that may be used by a pluggable message authentication module to interact with the message processing runtime that invoked the module.
javax.security.auth.message.config	This package defines the interfaces implemented by JSR 196 compatible configuration systems.
javax.security.auth.message.module	This package defines the interfaces implemented by JSR 196 compatible authentication modules.
javax.security.jacc	This package contains the Java Authorization Contract for Containers API
javax.servlet	The javax.servlet package contains a number of classes and interfaces that describe and define the contracts between a servlet class and the runtime environment provided for an instance of such a class by a conforming servlet container.
javax.servlet.annotation	The javax.servlet.annotation package contains a number of annotations that allow users to use annotations to declare servlets, filters, listeners and specify the metadata for the declared component.
javax.servlet.descriptor	Provides programmatic access to a web application's configuration information that was aggregated from the web.xml and web-fragment.xml descriptors.
javax.servlet.http	The javax.servlet.http package contains a number of classes and interfaces that describe and define the contracts between a servlet class running under the HTTP protocol and the runtime environment provided for an instance of such a class by a conforming servlet container.
javax.servlet.jsp	Classes and interfaces for the Core JSP 2.1 API.
javax.servlet.jsp.el	Provides the ELResolver classes that define the object resolution rules that must be supported by a JSP container with the new unified Expression Language.
javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.core	Classes and interfaces related to the core tag library component of the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL).
javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt	Classes and interfaces related to the locale sensitive formatting tag library component of the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL).
javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.sql	Classes and interfaces related to the sql tag library component of the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL).
javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.tlv	Reusable Tag Library Validator (TLV) classes provided by the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL).
javax.servlet.jsp.tagext	Classes and interfaces for the definition of JavaServer Pages Tag Libraries.
javax.transaction	Provides the API that defines the contract between the transaction manager and the various parties involved in a distributed transaction namely : resource manager, application, and application server.
javax.transaction.xa	Provides the API that defines the contract between the transaction manager and the resource manager, which allows the transaction manager to enlist and delist resource objects (supplied by the resource manager driver) in JTA transactions.
javax.validation
javax.validation.bootstrap
javax.validation.constraints
javax.validation.groups	A group defines a subset of constraints.
javax.validation.metadata
javax.validation.spi
javax.ws.rs	High-level interfaces and annotations used to create RESTful service resources.
javax.ws.rs.core	Low-level interfaces and annotations used to create RESTful service resources.
javax.ws.rs.ext	APIs that provide extensions to the types supported by the JAX-RS API.
javax.xml.bind	Provides a runtime binding framework for client applications including unmarshalling, marshalling, and validation capabilities.
javax.xml.bind.annotation	Defines annotations for customizing Java program elements to XML Schema mapping.
javax.xml.bind.annotation.adapters	XmlAdapter and its spec-defined sub-classes to allow arbitrary Java classes to be used with JAXB.
javax.xml.bind.attachment	This package is implemented by a MIME-based package processor that enables the interpretation and creation of optimized binary data within an MIME-based package format.
javax.xml.bind.helpers	JAXB Provider Use Only: Provides partial default implementations for some of the javax.xml.bind interfaces.
javax.xml.bind.util	Useful client utility classes.
javax.xml.registry	This package and its sub-packages describe the API classes and interfaces for the JAXR API.
javax.xml.registry.infomodel	This package describes the information model for JAXR API.
javax.xml.rpc	This package contains the core JAX-RPC APIs for the client programming model.
javax.xml.rpc.encoding	This package defines APIs for the extensible type mapping framework.
javax.xml.rpc.handler	This package defines APIs for SOAP Message Handlers
javax.xml.rpc.handler.soap	This package defines APIs for SOAP Message Handlers
javax.xml.rpc.holders	This package contains the standard Java Holder classes.
javax.xml.rpc.server	This package defines APIs for the servlet based JAX-RPC endpoint model.
javax.xml.rpc.soap	This package defines APIs specific to the SOAP binding.
javax.xml.soap	Provides the API for creating and building SOAP messages.
javax.xml.stream
javax.xml.stream.events
javax.xml.stream.util
javax.xml.ws	This package contains the core JAX-WS APIs.
javax.xml.ws.handler	This package defines APIs for message handlers.
javax.xml.ws.handler.soap	This package defines APIs for SOAP message handlers.
javax.xml.ws.http	This package defines APIs specific to the HTTP binding.
javax.xml.ws.soap	This package defines APIs specific to the SOAP binding.
javax.xml.ws.spi	This package defines SPIs for JAX-WS.
javax.xml.ws.spi.http	Provides HTTP SPI that is used for portable deployment of JAX-WS web services in containers(for e.g.
javax.xml.ws.wsaddressing	This package defines APIs related to WS-Addressing.