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See here.

There are three different Java EE related API:s available in the Maven repository.

  1. Specification APIs (Maven artifact: javaee-api)
  2. Web Specification APIs (javaee-web)
  3. Endorsed APIs (javaee-endorsed-api)

I know the specification API (the full blown suite of Java EE API:s) and the web API (a subset of the former, implemented by some application servers).

But what is the "endorsed API" and do I need to care?

Note: I did find this link but it tells me nothing.

Martin Andersson
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  • There are a lot more Java EE APIs available in maven than three. Those are just collecting APIs - usually you would prefer individual APIs, like servlet api, EJB api etc. – eis Feb 03 '14 at 14:04
  • This [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/18356334/269514) might help. – Gilberto Nov 18 '14 at 20:06

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Looks to be GlassFish related. Download the jar and execute:

jar -tf javaee-endorsed-api-7.0.jar

Actually, if you look at the table in the "Standalone Technologies" section of that link you referenced, there seems to be a very good correspondence between the classes included in the javaee-endorsed-api-7.0.jar and the items in the table. I would say it seems that the jar is bundling up these for GlassFish so that the jar can be dropped into 

<java-home>/lib/endorsed

And then become available to applications deployed on the GlassFish server.

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    To anyone like me that had no idea what "-tf" does: `t` says "list table of contents" and `f` says "next we'll provide you with an jar file". So `-tf` displays the contents of the jar file. – Martin Andersson Feb 03 '14 at 22:18
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I was having problems running a project because of this dependency in NetBeans. Installing "EJB and EAR" plugin solved it for me.

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