docs/comparison.adoc

= Comparison
:index-group: General Information
:jbake-date: 2018-12-05
:jbake-type: page
:jbake-status: published
:icons: font
:y: icon:check[role="green"]
:n: icon:times[role="red"]

== Differences between TomEE versions and/or flavors

xref:../../comparison.adoc[See main comparison page.]

== [[specifications]] Detailed list of Jakarta EE 9.1 and MicroProfile 5.0 specifications

[options="header",cols="5,5*^1"]
|===
|Specifications|Tomcat|TomEE WebProfile|TomEE MicroProfile|TomEE Plus|TomEE Plume
// TOMCAT
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/annotations/2.0/[Jakarta Annotations^] 2.0|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/authentication/2.0/[Jakarta Authentication^] (JASPIC) 2.0|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/debugging/2.0/[Jakarta Debugging Support for Other Languages^] 2.0|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/servlet/5.0/[Jakarta Servlet^] 5.0|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/pages/3.0/[Jakarta Server Pages^] (JSP) 3.0|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/expression-language/4.0/[Jakarta Expression Language^] (EL) 4.0|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/websocket/2.0/[Jakarta WebSocket^] 2.0|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
// WEB PROFILE
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/webprofile/9.1/[Jakarta Web Profile specifications^] 9.1||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/activation/2.0/[Jakarta Activation^] 2.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/bean-validation/3.0/[Jakarta Bean Validation^] 3.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/cdi/3.0/[Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection^] (CDI) 3.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/dependency-injection/2.0/[Jakarta Dependency Injection^] (@Inject) 2.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/enterprise-beans/4.0/[Jakarta Enterprise Beans^] (EJB) 4.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/faces/3.0/[Jakarta Faces^] (JSF) 3.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/interceptors/2.0/[Jakarta Interceptors^] 2.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/jsonb/2.0/[Jakarta JSON Binding^] (JSON-B) 2.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/jsonp/2.0/[Jakarta JSON Processing^] (JSON-P) 2.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/mail/2.0/[Jakarta Mail^] (JavaMail) 2.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/managedbeans/2.0/[Jakarta Managed Beans^] 2.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/persistence/3.0/[Jakarta Persistence^] (JPA) 3.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/restful-ws/3.0/[Jakarta RESTful Web Services^] (JAX-RS) 3.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/security/2.0/[Jakarta Security^] (Enterprise Security) * 2.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/tags/2.0/[Jakarta Standard Tag Library^] (JSTL) * 2.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/transactions/2.0/[Jakarta Transactions^] (JTA) 2.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/xml-binding/3.0/[Jakarta XML Binding^] (JAXB) 3.0||{y}|{y}|{y}|{y}
// MICRO PROFILE
|https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-5.0/microprofile-spec-5.0.html[MicroProfile specifications^] 5.0|||{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-config-3.0/microprofile-config-spec-3.0.html[MicroProfile Config^] 3.0|||{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-fault-tolerance-4.0/microprofile-fault-tolerance-spec-4.0.html[MicroProfile Fault Tolerance^] 4.0|||{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-health-4.0/microprofile-health-spec-4.0.html[MicroProfile Health^] 4.0|||{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-jwt-auth-2.0/microprofile-jwt-auth-spec-2.0.html[MicroProfile JWT Authentication^] 2.0|||{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-metrics-4.0/microprofile-metrics-spec-4.0.html[MicroProfile Metrics^] 4.0|||{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-open-api-3.0/microprofile-openapi-spec-3.0.html[MicroProfile OpenAPI^] 3.0|||{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-opentracing-3.0/microprofile-opentracing-spec-3.0.html[MicroProfile OpenTracing^] 3.0|||{y}|{y}|{y}
|https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-rest-client-3.0/microprofile-rest-client-spec-3.0.html[MicroProfile Rest Client^] 3.0|||{y}|{y}|{y}
// FULL EE
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/platform/9.1/[Jakarta EE specifications^] 9.1||||{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/authorization/2.0/[Jakarta Authorization^] (JACC) 2.0||||{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/batch/2.0/[Jakarta Batch^] (JBatch) 2.0||||{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/concurrency/2.0/[Jakarta Concurrency^] 2.0||||{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/connectors/2.0/[Jakarta Connectors^] 2.0||||{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/enterprise-ws/2.0/[Jakarta Enterprise Web Services^] 2.0||||{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/messaging/3.0/[Jakarta Messaging^] (JMS) 3.0||||{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/soap-attachments/2.0/[Jakarta SOAP with Attachments^] (SAAJ) 2.0||||{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/web-services-metadata/3.0/[Jakarta Web Services Metadata^] (JWS) 3.0||||{y}|{y}
|https://jakarta.ee/specifications/xml-web-services/3.0/[Jakarta XML Web Services^] (JAX-WS) 3.0||||{y}|{y}
// IMPLEMENTATIONS
|Jakarta Faces (JSF) implementation||MyFaces|MyFaces|MyFaces|*Mojarra*
|Jakarta Persistence (JPA) implementation(s)||OpenJPA|OpenJPA|OpenJPA|OpenJPA, *EclipseLink*
|===

* Please note that Tomcat does not ship with the jars for Standard Tag Library (JSTL) nor the jakarta.security.enterprise.* packages.

== [[implementations]] Implementations of Jakarta EE and MicroProfile features in TomEE 9.x

[options="header",cols="1,1"]
|===
|Specifications|Implementations included by TomEE 9.x
|Jakarta Servlet, Server Pages (JSP), Expression Language (EL), +
Jakarta Annotations, Authentication (JASPIC), WebSocket, ... |
https://tomcat.apache.org/[Apache Tomcat^] 10.0.x
|Jakarta{nbsp}Standard{nbsp}Tag{nbsp}Library{nbsp}(JSTL)|https://tomcat.apache.org/taglibs.html[Apache Standard Taglib Implementation^]
// 2.0.x
|Jakarta Faces (JSF)|
https://myfaces.apache.org/[Apache MyFaces^] *(shipped in all TomEE flavors except Plume)* +
https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.mojarra[Eclipse Mojarra^] *(shipped in TomEE Plume)*
|Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI)|https://openwebbeans.apache.org/[Apache OpenWebBeans^] 2.x (with jakarta classifier)
|Jakarta Enterprise Beans (EJB)|https://openejb.apache.org/[Apache OpenEJB^]
|Jakarta Transactions (JTA)|Apache{nbsp}Geronimo{nbsp}Transaction{nbsp}Manager
|Jakarta Persistence (JPA)|
https://openjpa.apache.org/[Apache OpenJPA^] 3.2.x jakarta (shipped in all TomEE flavors) +
https://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/[EclipseLink^] 3.x *(shipped in TomEE Plume)*
|Jakarta Bean Validation|
https://bval.apache.org/[Apache BVal^]
|Web Services|https://cxf.apache.org/[Apache CXF^] 3.5.x
|Jakarta JSON Binding (JSON-B), +
Jakarta JSON Processing (JSON-P)|
https://johnzon.apache.org/[Apache Johnzon^] 1.2.x
|Jakarta XML Binding (JAXB)|https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/ee4j.jaxb-impl[Eclipse Implementation of JAXB^] 3.0.x
|Jakarta Mail (JavaMail)|Apache Geronimo JavaMail
|MicroProfile|
Apache Geronimo MicroProfile {n} *(ok with TomEE 7.1.x and 8.x)* +
https://smallrye.io/[SmallRye MicroProfile^] {y} *(ok with TomEE 9.x and later)*
|Jakarta Batch (JBatch)|https://geronimo.apache.org/batchee/[Apache BatchEE^]
|Jakarta Messaging (JMS)|https://activemq.apache.org/[Apache ActiveMQ^]
|===

In bold : Implementations that differ between flavors or between versions

== [[Compatibility]] Compatibility with other implementations

[options="header",cols="1,1"]
|===
|Specifications|Implementations alternatives +
//(see icons for compatibilities with TomEE 9.x)
|Jakarta Persistence (JPA)|https://hibernate.org/orm/[Hibernate ORM^] {y} 6.1.x +
|Jakarta MVC|
https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/krazo/[Eclipse Krazo^] {y} 2.0.x +
|Other containers (CDI, EJB, JTA, etc.) and frameworks|
https://spring.io/[Spring^] {y} 6.0.x +
|===

* Please note that TomEE does not ship with the jars for Hibernate ORM, Jersey, Krazo, Spring.