Question

I need to get the latest Java EE jars, but I don’t need GlassFish on my computer. On the Oracle Download Site I see versions of the install with and without JDK, but none without GlassFish.

When running the installer’s advanced install I see an option to skip configuring GlassFish, but not to skip installing it.

How can I just get the Java EE jars? By Java EE jars I mean the modularized jars that contain the Java EE functionality (javax.*), such as mail.jar.

Answer 1

I assume you want the Java EE 6 API jar so you can write EJB 3.1 applications and such.

If you are using Maven, add

<dependency>
  <groupId>javax</groupId>
  <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
  <version>6.0</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

to your pom.xml.

Without Maven, you can download the jar from the repository.