Intertech: Java EE 7 is Around the Corner!

see http://www.intertech.com/Blog/java-ee-7-is-around-the-corner/

JSR 236: Concurrency Utilities for Java EE 1.0 – A “simple” API that allows different threads to access EE provided components & services.

JSR 352: Batch Applications for the Java Platform 1.0 – Although batch processing is a common requirement in Enterprise applications, there was no standard Batch API available.  This new API will help reduce the constant “reinventing the wheel,” that often took place.

JSR 353: Java API for JSON Processing 1.0 – An API for handling both stream and object oriented JSON data.

JSR 356: Java API for WebSocket 1.0 – WebSockets allow an interactive conversation between a client and server that go beyond the request/response paradigm of HTTP (along with reducing much of the overhead).

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