Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 8 Upgrade Exam

The certification for Java SE 8 is not yet available, but here are the "What's New" from the JDK 8 release, and are candidates for the upgrade exam preparation:

• Lambda expressions
• Default methods in interface
• Aggregate operations
• Date-Time
• Type annotations
• Repeating annotations
• New java.util.stream package

There are several other updates in Security, JavaFX, Tools, etc., but we will wait and see if they make it to the upgrade certification syllabus.

Details on Oracle certification can be accessed from the Certification tab on http://education.oracle.com

 

References:

• What's New in JDK 8 
• Java Tutorial

Java EE 7: Moving into the Cloud

Updated: Java EE 7 launch webcasts:

For quick reference, this post lists the JSRs planned for the Java EE 7, slated to be released in Q2 of 2013:

• JSR 107 - JCACHE: Java Temporary Caching API 
• JSR 236 - Concurrency Utilities for Java EE 
• JSR 338 - Java Persistence 2.1
• JSR 339 - JAX-RS 2.0: The Java API for RESTful WebServices
• JSR 340 - Java Servlet 3.1 Specification
• JSR 341 - Expression Language 3.0
• JSR 342 - Java EE 7 Specification
• JSR 343 - JMS 2.0
• JSR 344 - JSF 2.2
• JSR 345 - EJB 3.2
• JSR 346 - Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java EE 1.1
• JSR 349 - Bean Validation 1.1
• JSR 350 - Java State Management
• JSR 352 - Batch Applications for the Java Platform
• JSR 353 - Java API for JSON Processing

Post on Java EE 6 is here.


Reference:
1. Jdevelopment 
2. Java Magazine

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Looking Ahead to Java EE 7

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Java EE 6

• JSR 196 - Java Authentication SPI for Containers
• JSR 236 - Concurrency Utilities (including Timer)
• JSR 237 - Work Manager for Application Servers
• JSR 299 - Web Beans 1.0 
• JSR 311 - JAX-RS: Java API for RESTful Web Services
• JSR 314 - Java Server Faces 2.0  
• JSR 315 - Servlet 3.0
• JSR 316 - Java EE 6 Specification
• JSR 317 - Java Persistence 2.0
• EJB 3.1

Post on Java EE 7 is here.

References:

• Oracle Java EE 6 | New Features in Java EE 6 | 
• Hands on Lab 
• Using CDI with JSF | CDI Tutorial
• CDI Bootstrapping | Adding |  Tutorial Part I |  II | III
• Dependency Injection 
• SOAP vs. REST