Java EE : XML Schemas for Java EE Deployment Descriptors

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By Bill Shannon, Java EE Spec Lead, Sun Microsystems, Inc., December 10, 2009

Latest Version: http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/

Contents

-	Introduction
-	Using Java EE Schemas
-	Java EE 6 Schema Resources
-	Java EE 5 Schema Resources
-	J2EE 1.4 XML Schemas
-	J2EE 1.3 DTDs
-	J2EE 1.2 DTDs

Introduction

This document lists the document formats that will be used by the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) deployment descriptors described by Java EE 5 and later specifications. Prior to the J2EE 1.4 specifications, each Deployment Descriptor must be valid with respect to a specific DTD that describes the Deployment Descriptor. They are found in the J2EE section of this document. Starting with the J2EE 1.4 specification, each specification requires its Deployment Descriptor be validated with respect to an XML Schema that is listed in the J2EE 1.4 document and this document. Note that deployment descriptors defined by previous versions of the Java EE specification must also be supported, and must continue to be validated against the corresponding DTD. Note that several deployment descriptors have not been updated for Java EE 5. In particular, the J2EE 1.4 deployment descriptors connector_1_5.xsd and j2ee_jaxrpc_mapping_1_1.xsd are the current versions used for Java EE 5. Similarly, the J2EE 1.4 deployment descriptor j2ee_jaxrpc_mapping_1_1.xsd is the current version used for Java EE 6.

The Java EE specificaiton also requires support for the Java Persistence API. The Java Persistence API Schemas are available at http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/

This document describes how to use the Java EE schemas that are described as a set of modules and provides a list of XML Schemas for each deployment descriptor.

Using Java EE Schemas

All Java EE Deployment Descriptor Schemas share the namespace, http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/. Each schema document contains a version attribute that contains the version of the specification. For example, the XML Schema document for the Servlet specification contains the version attribute value "3.0", pertaining to the specific version of the specification as well as the schema document itself.

Each Java EE XML Schema document's file name contains the specific version of the related specification. This is introduced for convenience to locate specific versions of the schema documents. However, Deployment Descriptor instances are not required to refer to a specific file. Instead, an instance must specify the version of the corresponding specification by using a version attribute. For example, servlet Deployment Descriptor instances that must be processed with the servlet 3.0 version must indicate the version within the version attribute of the instance document, for example, "3.0". The Deployment Descriptor processors use the version information to choose the appropriate version of the schema document(s) to process the Deployment Descriptor instances.

A specific version of the Java EE specification contains a set of deployment descriptor schemas to constitute the Java EE Schema. The common definitions are contained in the javaee_<version>.xsd document that may be included by several Java EE Deployment Descriptor schemas.

Java EE 6 Schema Resources

This table contains the XML Schema components for Java EE 6 schema.

Date Published	File Name	Description	Status
December 10, 2009	application_6.xsd	Application schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	application-client_6.xsd	Application Client schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	beans_1_0.xsd	Contexts and Dependency Injection schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	connector_1_6.xsd	Java EE Connector schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	ejb-jar_3_1.xsd	Enterprise JavaBeans Deployment Descriptor Schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	javaee_6.xsd	Java EE 6 definitions file that contains common schema components	Final Release
December 10, 2009	javaee_web_services_1_3.xsd	Web services schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	javaee_web_services_client_1_3.xsd	Web services client schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	jsp_2_2.xsd	JavaServer Pages Deployment Descriptor schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	web-app_3_0.xsd	Web Application Deployment Descriptor schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	web-common_3_0.xsd	Web Application Deployment Descriptor common definitions schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	web-fragment_3_0.xsd	Web Application Deployment Descriptor fragment schema	Final Release
July 1, 2009	web-facelettaglibrary_2_0.xsd	JavaServer Faces Facelet Tag Library schema	Final Release
July 1, 2009	web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd	JavaServer Faces Application Configuration File schema	Final Release
July 1, 2009	web-facesuicomponent_2_0.xsd	JavaServer Faces UI Component Configuration schema	Final Release
July 1, 2009	web-partialresponse_2_0.xsd	JavaServer Faces partial response schema	Final Release
December 10, 2009	web-jsptaglibrary_2_1.xsd	JSP Taglibrary Deployment Descriptor schema	Final Release
November 21, 2007	javaee_web_services_metadata_handler_2_0.xsd	Web services schema	Final Release
-	http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd	The Java EE schemas use some common definitions provided and published by W3C	-

Java EE 5 Schema Resources

This table contains the XML Schema components for Java EE 5 schema.

Date Published	File Name	Description	Status
May 2, 2006	application_5.xsd	Application schema	Final Release
May 2, 2006	application-client_5.xsd	Application Client schema	Final Release
May 2, 2006	ejb-jar_3_0.xsd	Enterprise JavaBeans Deployment Descriptor Schema	Final Release
May 2, 2006	javaee_5.xsd	Java EE 5 definitions file that contains common schema components	Final Release
May 2, 2006	javaee_web_services_1_2.xsd	Web services schema	Final Release
May 2, 2006	javaee_web_services_client_1_2.xsd	Web services client schema	Final Release
May 2, 2006	jsp_2_1.xsd	JavaServer Pages Deployment Descriptor Schema	Final Release
May 2, 2006	web-app_2_5.xsd	Servlet Deployment Descriptor Schema	Final Release
July 1, 2008	web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd	JavaServer Faces Application Configuration File schema	Final Release
May 2, 2006	web-jsptaglibrary_2_1.xsd	JSP Taglibrary Deployment Descriptor Schema	Final Release
November 21, 2007	javaee_web_services_metadata_handler_2_0.xsd	Java EE Web Services Metadata Handler Chain Schema	Final Release
-	http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd	The Java EE schemas use some common definitions provided and published by W3C	-

J2EE 1.4 XML Schemas

XML Schemas specified by the J2EE 1.4 specification are available at http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/.

J2EE 1.3 DTDs

DTDs specified by the J2EE 1.3 specification are available at http://java.sun.com/dtd/.

J2EE 1.2 DTDs

DTDs specified by the J2EE 1.2 specification are available at http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/.

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