Awesome Jakarta EE Resources for Developers

A page with collected developer resources about Jakarta EE.

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Official Jakarta EE Resources (by the Eclipse Foundation)

• Jakarta EE Landing Page
• Jakarta EE Specifications

Jakarta EE Documentation

• Jakarta EE Documentation (includes official tutorials and examples)
• Jakarta EE Tutorial by Eclipse Fnd.
• Jakarta EE 10 Javadocs (Web-Profile 10)
• Starter for Jakarta EE - Generate Jakarta EE Maven Project with Examples

Jakarta EE Examples

• Jakarta EE Examples by Eclipse Foundation (initially donated by Manfred Reim)

Maven Jakarta EE Resources

Archetypes

• Jakarta EE Maven Archetype by the Eclipse Starter for Jakarta EE project (Jakarta EE 8, 9, and 10, plus any new version in the future)
• Jakarta EE Web App Archetypes by Josh Juneau (Jakarta EE 8, 9, and 10)
• Jakarta EE Essentials Archetype by Adam Bien (Jakarta EE 8 + MicroProfile 3.3)
• Jakarta EE 8 and Eclipse Microprofile 4.1 Archetype by bitofcode

Jakarta EE Learning Resources

Blogs Related to Jakarta EE

• The Jakarta EE blog
• The HashTag Jakarta EE blog by Ivar Grimstad, Jakarta EE Developer Advocate
• Jakarta EE articles at foojay.io by the Friends of OpenJDK community
• Adam Bien’s blog
• Reza Rahman’s personal blog
• The Jakarta EE Ambassadors blog

Company Blogs Related to Jakarta EE

• Jakarta EE articles at the Payara tech blog
• Jakarta EE articles at the OmniFish blog
• Jakarta EE articles at the OpenLiberty blog
• Jakarta EE articles at the Tomitribe blog

Podcasts Related to Jakarta EE

• Airhacks.fm - by Adam Bien
• The Stackd Podcast, a.k.a The Enterprise Java Newscast in the past
• Off Heap

Jakarta EE Video Channels

• The Jakarta EE Youtube Channel
• Airhacks.tv - Adam Bien’s monthly Q/A

Jakarta EE Tools and Extensions

CDI Extensions

• Apache DeltaSpike - a number of portable CDI extensions that provide useful features
• CDI ecosystem collection at the CDI main site (DeltaSpike, Apache Camel, etc.)
• CDI extension projects on GitHub

XML Binding (JAX-B)

• JAXB Tools - number of tools around XML Binding (maven plugin, JAXB-RI implementation plugins, etc.)

Connectors

• JCA Cloud Connectors - standards-based connectivity to common Cloud infrastructure (Apache Kafka, Amazon SQS, MQTT, Azure Service Bus) by Payara

General Jakarta EE resources

• OmniFish Developer pages - resources related to Jakarta EE, Eclipse GlassFish, Piranha Cloud, e.g. Docker images, IDE plugins, Arquillian containers, curated by OmniFish

Testing

• Arquillian - a highly extensible testing platform for the JVM that enables developers to easily create automated integration, functional and acceptance tests for Java middleware. It provides extra-light containers to test your code against major Jakarta EE application servers and containers
• MicroShed Testing - integration tests for Java microservice applications using containers (Docker)

Older Java EE 8 Resources

Official Java EE 8 Resources

• Java EE 8 Landing Page by Oracle
• Java EE 8 Tutorial by Oracle
• Java EE 8 SDK Download by Oracle (Samples, GlassFish, example apps)
• Java EE 8 Javadoc (API reference)

Java EE 8 Examples

• Java EE 8 Samples by the community
• Java EE 7 Samples by the community
• Java EE Microservices Example - Java EE Calculator by Adam Bien
• Java EE 8 By Example - a gitbook by Hantsy Bai

Maven Java EE 8 Resources

Archetypes

• Java EE 8 Essentials Archetype by Adam Bien

Java EE 8 Libraries

• Tomitribe projects - various useful opensource Java SE and Java EE libraries by Tomitribe