July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
116 pages
2h 41m
English
Content preview from Building RESTful Web Services with Java EE 8
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Java EE version history
If you have a look at the Java EE version history, which you can find at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Platform,_Enterprise_Edition, you'll see we've come a long way since J2EE 1.2 was first released on December 12, 1999. If you look on the far-right side in the following diagram, you can see Java EE 8 was released on September 21, 2017, which means we have 18 years of experience and 18 years of community-built knowledge. Therefore it's definitely a very mature and stable API that's been continually improved:
Java EE version history