Title: Comparison

Apache OpenEJB and Apache TomEE are born from the same project and community. They differ in two major ways, only one of them technical:

• TomEE incorporates two additional projects; Tomcat and MyFaces
• TomEE, as a name, more easily implies the breadth of technologies included

Effectively, TomEE is a superset of OpenEJB. They share the same code and TomEE grew out of OpenEJB.

Note: this table is for TomEE 1.x, TomEE 7 comments are under it.

TomEE 7 targets JavaEE 7 and implements these specifications (in parenthesis the distibution(s) containing it if not part of the basic packages):

• WebSocket JSR 356
• JSON-P JSR 353
• Servlet 3.1 JSR 340
• JSF 2.2 JSR 344
• EL 3.0 JSR 341
• JSP 2.3 JSR 245
• JSTL 1.2 JSR 52
• JBatch (plus) JSR 352
• Concurrency utilities for EE JSR 236
• CDI 1.2, DI, Interceptors 1.2, Common Annotations JSR 346 + JSR 330 + JSR 318 + JSR 250
• Bean Validation 1.1 JSR 349
• EJB 3.2 JSR 345
• JavaEE Connector JSR 322
• JPA 2.1 JSR 338 (WARNING: openjpa based distributions provide a JPA 2.0 runtime)
• JMS 2.0 JSR 343 (layer based on ActiveMQ 5 / JMS 1.1 for default distributions)
• JTA 1.2 JSR 907
• Javamail 1.4 (NOTE: EE 7 requires 1.5)
• JAX-RS 2.0 JSR 339
• JAX-WS 2.2 JSR 224
• JAXB 2.2 JSR 222
• and more inherited from TomEE 1/JavaEE 6