Specification URLs

Current Java Specifications

Older Java Specifications

Upcoming Java Specifications

HTTP RFCs

Web Services Standards

HTML, CSS, XML, XSL, etc.

Other Standards

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Current Java Specifications

Java SE 10, 11, 12 etc: OpenJDK, JCP for Java 10, JCP for Java 11, JCP for Java 12

all Java SE APIs

Java EE 8 JSR-366, collection of links

EJB 3.2

Servlet 4 (JSR 369), article, HTTP/2 in Servlet 4

JSP 2.3 and EL 3.0

EL 3.0

JMS 2.1 (JSR 368)

JSF 2.3 (JSR 372)

JAX-RS 2.1 (JSR 370)

JPA 2.1, Overview of new features

CDI 2 (JSR 365)

MVC (JSR 371)

Bean Validation 1.1

Batch Application

Concurrency Utilities for JEE

WebSocket 1.0

JSON Processing.

JSON-B (JSR 367)

JSTL 1.2

JAX-WS 2.x

JDBC 4.0 and 4.1

SIP servlets: tutorial, 1.0 spec, 1.1 spec, article, SailFin and Mobicents are open source implementations

 
Older Java Specifications

Java SE 9: specification, OpenJDK, How Jigsaw might break code, Critical Deficiencies in Jigsaw (JSR-376), New Java 9 Features

Java SE 8, feature list, documentation, list of new features including links to further resources

Java SE 7, feature list, documentation

JEE / J2EE: JEE 7, JEE 7 key features - 6 - 5 - 1.4 - 1.3

Servlets: 3.1 - 3.0 - 2.5 - 2.4 - 2.3 and JSP 1.2

JSP 2.1 - JSP 2.0 - JSP 2.0 Syntax Reference

EL 2.1

JSTL 1.1 - 1.1 Javadocs - 1.0

JSF 2.2 - JSF 2.0 (What's new in JSF 2.0? - four-part series on JSF 2.0), JSF 1.2

EJB: 3.1, 3.0 - 2.1 - 2.0

JDBC 3.0

JPA 2.0

JAX-RS 2.0 - JAX-RS 1.x

CDI 1.1 - DI for Java EE 1.0, a.k.a. Web Beans, introduction pt 1, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4, pt 5, pt 6

JMS 2.0

 
Upcoming Java Specifications

JavaEE Security API (JSR 375)

WebSocket API update (JSR-356)

SIP Servlets 2.0 (JSR-359)

Batch Applications update (JSR-352)

 
HTTP RFCs

HTTP 1.0

HTTP Digest Authentication

HTTP 1.1

HTTP 1.1 Authentication

HTTP 1.1 Extensions

HTTP 2, HTTP 2 Header Compression, WikiPedia:HTTP/2

Returning Values from Forms, Form-based File Upload in HTML

HTTP State (cookies) (RFC 2109, now obsolete)

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)

WebDAV

Punycode

HTCPCP 1.0 (Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol)

 
Web Services Standards

SOAP: 1.1 - 1.2 Primer - 1.2 Messaging Framework - 1.2 Adjuncts - 1.2 Attachments

WSDL: 1.1 - 2.0 Primer - 2.0 Core - 2.0 Adjuncts

WS-Security: 1.0 - 1.1 - 1.1.1

Web Services Interoperability: Basic Profile 1.0 - Basic Profile 1.1 - Basic Profile 1.2 - Basic Security Profile 1.0

WS-Addressing

XML-Signature

XML-Encryption

WS-ReliableMessaging

WS-Reliability

UDDI, ebXML and others - http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/index.php

BPEL: 1.1 - 2.0 - BPEL4People 1.1

WADL (submitted to W3C, not yet approved)

A more comprehensive list - http://wiki.apache.org/ws/WebServiceSpecifications

 
Web

HTML: 3.2 - 4.01 - 5 - 5.1 - 5.2 - HTML+RDFa - HTML Microdata

Web Components

JavaScript APIs: Web Workers - File API - HTML Canvas 2D - Geolocation - Server-Sent Events (example web app)- Push API, also at MDN - WebSockets (WebSocket Protocol, basic WebSocket web app) - Web Storage - Indexed DB - Web Notifications - Fetch

CSS: 1 - 2 - 2.1 - other

DOM

SVG: 1.1

MathML: 2.0 - 3.0

XML: 1.0 - NS 1.0 - 1.1 - NS 1.1

XSL-T - XPath - XSL-FO

WebGL

Payment Request API

Encrypted Media Extensions

 
Other Standards

JSON

all IETF RFCs

all W3C standards and drafts

all What-WG standards