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Jakarta XML Binding 4.0

The Jakarta XML Binding provides an API and tools that automate the mapping between XML documents and Java objects.

New features, enhancements or additions

  • adds implementation lookup through the properties Map passed to JAXBContext.newInstance(…) methods
  • provided implementation of the DatatypeConverterInterface throws exception on invalid input
  • adds https scheme to the list of required to be removed schemes when mapping namespace to java package
  • fixes cross-references in the specification document

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

  • drops compatibility with JAXB 1.0
  • removes constraints on using java.desktop/java.beans.Introspector
  • removes deprecated jakarta.xml.bind.Validator
  • removes deprecated jakarta.xml.bind.context.factory property
  • drops implementation lookup through META-INF/services/jakarta.xml.bind.JAXBContext
  • drops implementation lookup through jaxb.properties file

Minimum Java SE Version

Java SE 11 or higher

Details

Compatible Implementations

Ballots

Release Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2022-04-06 with the following results.

Representative Representative for: Vote
Kenji Kazumura Fujitsu +1
Tom Watson, Emily Jiang IBM +1
Ed Bratt, Dmitry Kornilov Oracle +1
Andrew Pielage, Matt Gill Payara +1
David Blevins, Jean-Louis Monteiro Tomitribe +1
Ivar Grimstad EE4J PMC +1
Marcelo Ancelmo, Martijn Verburg Participant Members +1
Werner Keil Committer Members +1
Jun Qian Enterprise Members +1
Zhai Luchao Enterprise Members no vote
Total 9

The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list

Plan Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2021-06-07 with the following results.

Representative Representative for: Vote
Kenji Kazumura Fujitsu +1
Dan Bandera, Kevin Sutter IBM +1
Ed Bratt, Dmitry Kornilov Oracle +1
Andrew Pielage, Matt Gill Payara +1
Scott Stark, Mark Little Red Hat +1
David Blevins, Jean-Louis Monteiro Tomitribe +1
Ivar Grimstad EE4J PMC +1
Marcelo Ancelmo, Martijn Verburg Participant Members +1
Werner Keil Committer Members +1
Dr. Jun Qian Enterprise Members +1
Total 10

The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list

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