The new features in Java EE 8

Java EE 8 builds on Java EE 7. The following JSRs are new or updated in Java EE 8:

JSR 366 – Java EE 8 Platform
JSR 365 – Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) 2.0
JSR 367 – The Java API for JSON Binding (JSON-B) 1.0
JSR 369 – Java Servlet 4.0
JSR 370 – Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) 2.1
JSR 372 – JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.3
JSR 374 – Java API for JSON Processing (JSON-P)1.1
JSR 375 – Java EE Security API 1.0
JSR 380 – Bean Validation 2.0
JSR 250 – Common Annotations 1.3
JSR 338 – Java Persistence 2.2
JSR 356 – Java API for WebSocket 1.1
JSR 919 – JavaMail 1.6