| Title: Comparison |
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| Apache OpenEJB and Apache TomEE are born from the same project and community. They differ in two major ways, only one of them technical: |
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| - TomEE incorporates two additional projects; Tomcat and MyFaces |
| - TomEE, as a name, more easily implies the breadth of technologies included |
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| Effectively, TomEE is a superset of OpenEJB. They share the same code and TomEE grew out of OpenEJB. |
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| Note: this table is for TomEE 1.x, TomEE 7 comments are under it. |
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| <table> |
| <tr> |
| <th></th> |
| <th>Tomcat</th> |
| <th>TomEE</th> |
| <th>TomEE JAX-RS (~ Microprofile)</th> |
| <th>TomEE+</th> |
| <th>TomEE PluME</th> |
| <th>OpenEJB</th> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java Servlets</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java ServerPages (JSP)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java ServerFaces (JSF)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java Transaction API (JTA)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java Persistence API (JPA)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>JavaMail API</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Bean Validation</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Enterprise JavaBeans</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java EE Connector Architecture</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Java Messaging Service (JMS)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>EclipseLink</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr> |
| <td>Mojarra</td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td></td> |
| <td>(/)</td> |
| <td></td> |
| </tr> |
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| </table> |
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| TomEE 7 targets JavaEE 7 and implements these specifications (in parenthesis the distibution(s) containing it if not part of the basic packages): |
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| * 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 |
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