Release of the actual code for Java EE 5 is due in the same timeframe as the JavaOne technical conference in San Francisco, which begins on May 16.
Accelerating Java development is a key theme of version 5. Sun will conduct a technical preview of Java EE 5 this Thursday in Menlo Park, Calif., with participation from Java licensees BEA Systems, IBM, JBoss, Oracle, and SAP.
The new version supports:
-- JavaServer Faces 1.2, for Web application development
-- EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) 3.0, which is the latest version of the EJB technology for developing distributed, transactional, and portable applications on Java