Appendix B. Sun Specification Alternatives
The Apache Geronimo project maintains implementations of various
enterprise Java specifications. Table B-1 lists the artifactId and artifact version for all of the
specifications implemented by the Geronimo project. To use one of these
dependencies, use a groupId of
org.apache.geronimo.specs, locate the version of the
specification you want to use, and reference the dependency with the
artifactId and artifact version
listed in Table B-1.
Note
All artifacts in Table B-1 have
a groupId of
org.apache.geronimo.specs.
| Specification | Spec version | Artifact ID | Artifact version |
| Activation | 1.0.2 | geronimo-activation_1.0.2_spec | 1.2 |
| Activation | 1.1 | geronimo-activation_1.1_spec | 1.0.1 |
| Activation | 1.0 | geronimo-activation_1.0_spec | 1.1 |
| CommonJ | 1.1 | geronimo-commonj_1.1_spec | 1.0 |
| Corba | 2.3 | geronimo-corba_2.3_spec | 1.1 |
| Corba | 3.0 | geronimo-corba_3.0_spec | 1.2 |
| EJB | 2.1 | geronimo-ejb_2.1_spec | 1.1 |
| EJB | 3.0 | geronimo-ejb_3.0_spec | 1.0 |
| EL | 1.0 | geronimo-el_1.0_spec | 1.0 |
| Interceptor | 3.0 | geronimo-interceptor_3.0_spec | 1.0 |
| J2EE Connector | 1.5 | geronimo-j2ee-connector_1.5_spec | 1.1.1 |
| J2EE Deployment | 1.1 | geronimo-j2ee-deployment_1.1_spec | 1.1 |
| J2EE JACC | 1.0 | geronimo-j2ee-jacc_1.0_spec | 1.1.1 |
| J2EE Management | 1.0 | geronimo-j2ee-management_1.0_spec | 1.1 |
| J2EE Management | 1.1 | geronimo-j2ee-management_1.1_spec | 1.0 |
| J2EE | 1.4 | geronimo-j2ee_1.4_spec | 1.1 |
| JACC | 1.1 | geronimo-jacc_1.1_spec | 1.0 |
| JEE Deployment | 1.1MR3 | geronimo-javaee-deployment_1.1MR3_spec | 1.0 |
| JavaMail | 1.3.1 | geronimo-javamail_1.3.1_spec | 1.3 |
| JavaMail | 1.4 | geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec | 1.2 |
| JAXR | 1.0 | geronimo-jaxr_1.0_spec | 1.1 |
| JAXRPC | 1.1 | geronimo-jaxrpc_1.1_spec | 1.1 |
| JMS | 1.1 | geronimo-jms_1.1_spec | 1.1 |
| JPA | 3.0 | geronimo-jpa_3.0_spec | 1.1 |
| JSP | 2.0 | geronimo-jsp_2.0_spec | 1.1 |
| JSP | 2.1 | geronimo-jsp_2.1_spec | 1.0 |
| JTA | 1.0.1B | geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec | 1.1.1 |
| JTA | 1.1 | geronimo-jta_1.1_spec | 1.1 |
| QName | 1.1 | geronimo-qname_1.1_spec | 1.1 |
| SAAJ | 1.1 | geronimo-saaj_1.1_spec | 1.1 |
| Servlet | 2.4 | geronimo-servlet_2.4_spec | 1.1.1 |
| Servlet | 2.5 | geronimo-servlet_2.5_spec | 1.1.1 |
| STaX API | 1.0 | geronimo-stax-api_1.0_spec | 1.0.1 |
| WS Metadata | 2.0 | geronimo-ws-metadata_2.0_spec | 1.1.1 |
Note
The version numbers in the artifact version column may be out of
date by the time you read this book. To check on the version number,
visit http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/geronimo/specs/
in a web browser and click on the artifactId you want to add. Choose the
highest version of the spec you want to depend on.
To illustrate how to use this table, if we wanted to write some code in our project that interacted with the JTA 1.0.1B specification, we would need to add the dependency shown in Example B-1 to our project.
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId> <artifactId>geronimo-jta_1.0.1B_spec</artifactId> <version>1.1.1</version> </dependency>
Notice how the version of the artifact isn’t going to line up with the version of the specification—the previous dependency configuration adds version 1.0.1B of the JTA specification using the artifact version of 1.1.1. Be aware of this when depending on the alternate Geronimo implementations, and always double-check that you are using the latest artifact version number for your specifications.