jakarta-packages.adoc

Status of Jakarta’s javax packages

Complete Renamed Packages

Package	Specification	Exclusions
javax.activation	JavaBeansTM Activation Framework
javax.annotation	Common Annotations for the Java Platform	javax.annotation.processing
javax.batch	Batch Applications for the Java Platform
javax.decorator	Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java
javax.ejb	Enterprise JavaBeans
javax.el	Expression Language
javax.enterprise	Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java	javax.enterprise.deploy
javax.enterprise.concurrent	Concurrency Utilities for Java EE
javax.faces	JavaServer Faces
javax.inject	Dependency Injection for Java
javax.interceptor	Interceptors
javax.jms	Java Message Service
javax.json	Java API for JSON Processing
javax.json.bind	Java API for JSON Binding
javax.jws	Implementing Enterprise Web Services
javax.mail	JavaMail
javax.persistence	Java Persistence API
javax.resource	Java EE Connector Architecture
javax.security.auth.message	Java Authentication Service Provider Interface for Containers (JASPIC)
javax.security.enterprise	Java EE Security API
javax.security.jacc	Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC)
javax.servlet	Java Servlet
javax.servlet.jsp	JavaServer Pages
javax.servlet.jsp.jstl	Standard Tag Library for JavaServer Pages (JSTL)
javax.transaction	Java Transaction API (JTA)	javax.transaction.xa
javax.validation	Bean Validation
javax.websocket	Java API for WebSocket
javax.ws.rs	Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)
javax.xml.bind	Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB)
javax.xml.soap	SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ)
javax.xml.ws	Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS)

Complete Discontinued Packages

The following packages are under the oversight of the Jakarta EE Working Group, will not be renamed from javax to jakarta and are not part of Jakarta EE 9.

Package	Specification	Is Broken
javax.enterprise.deploy	Java EE Application Deployment	No
javax.management.j2ee	J2EE Management	Yes
javax.xml.registry	Java API for XML Registries (JAXR)	Yes
javax.xml.rpc	Java API for XML based RPC (JAX-RPC)	Yes

Java packages marked as broken above have references to other affected javax packages and therefore could not function on a runtime where those packages have been renamed to jakarta do not exist under javax

Java SE sub-packages exclusions

The following sub-packages are excluded from all remarks above and will remain in javax, shipped by Java SE.

Package	Specification
javax.annotation.processing	JSR 269: Pluggable Annotation Processing API
javax.transaction.xa	Removed from JTA in JSR-907