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The Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee has announced the approval of the Java Specification Request (JSR) for the next release of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 7 – JSR 342.

Java EE 7 will further enhance the Java EE platform for cloud environments. As a result, Java EE 7 based applications and products will be able to more easily operate on private or public clouds and deliver their functionality as a service with support for features such as multi-tenancy and elasticity (horizontal scaling).

With this submission, the Java EE standard will continue to progress through the JCP.

As part of the Java EE 7 submission, the JCP also approved JSR 340 for Java Servlet 3.1, JSR 341 for Expression Language 3.0, JSR 343 for Java Message Service 2.0 and JSR 344 for Java Server Faces 2.2.

This latest submission complements two Java EE 7 related JSRs previously approved by the JCP – JSR 338 for Java Persistence API 2.1 and JSR 339 for Java API for Restful Web Services. Additional JSRs within the Java EE platform will also be submitted for approval by their specification leads.

The plan calls for standardization of these technologies in Java EE 7 in 2012.