Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0 (under development)

Jakarta RESTful Web Services provides a foundational API to develop web services following the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural pattern.

The goal of this release is to provide better alignment between Jakarta RESTful Web Services and Jakarta Contexts Dependency Injection (CDI). This will be the first backward incompatible release of Jakarta REST.

New features, enhancements or additions

• Define CDI scopes for all Jakarta REST types - Issue #952
• Define CDI integration and startup for Java SE applications - Issue #953
• Enhance discovery of application artifacts using CDI scanning - Issue #953
• Explore integration with Jakarta Concurrency - Issue #950
• Explore alignment with CDI lite and potentially built-time injection support - Issue #1137

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

• Drop support for @Context injection and related artifacts - Issue #951
• Review integration with legacy Jakarta EE specifications (e.g. EJB) - Issue #954

Minimum Java SE Version

• Likely Java SE 17 or higher

Details

The latest details and progress for this work may be found on the Project Site as well as the Github Wiki. Also see Jakarta RESTful Web Services 4.0 Release Record.

Compatible Implementations

• Eclipse Jersey 4.0

Ballots

Plan Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2022-12-08 with the following results. Note that this is a revised plan from the approved plan review of June 2021.

Non-binding votes

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

Plan Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2021-06-01 with the following results.

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