Jakarta XML Binding 4.0

The Jakarta XML Binding provides an API and tools that automate the mapping between XML documents and Java objects.

New features, enhancements or additions

• adds implementation lookup through the properties Map passed to JAXBContext.newInstance(…) methods
• provided implementation of the DatatypeConverterInterface throws exception on invalid input
• adds https scheme to the list of required to be removed schemes when mapping namespace to java package
• fixes cross-references in the specification document

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

• drops compatibility with JAXB 1.0
• removes constraints on using java.desktop/java.beans.Introspector
• removes deprecated jakarta.xml.bind.Validator
• removes deprecated jakarta.xml.bind.context.factory property
• drops implementation lookup through META-INF/services/jakarta.xml.bind.JAXBContext
• drops implementation lookup through jaxb.properties file

Minimum Java SE Version

Java SE 11 or higher

Details

• Jakarta XML Binding 4.0 Release Record
  • Jakarta EE Platform 10 Release Plan
• Jakarta XML Binding 4.0 Specification Document (PDF)
• Jakarta XML Binding 4.0 Specification Document (HTML)
• Jakarta XML Binding 4.0 Javadoc
• Jakarta XML Binding 3.0 XML Schema
• Jakarta XML Binding 4.0 TCK (sig, sha, pub)
• Maven coordinates
  • jakarta.xml.bind:jakarta.xml.bind-api:jar:4.0.0

Compatible Implementations

• Jakarta XML Binding 4.0.0-M3

Ballots

Release Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2022-04-06 with the following results.

The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list

Plan Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2021-06-07 with the following results.

The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list