Jakarta MVC offers an alternative to Jakarta Faces. Instead of a component-based UI, it follows a traditional action-based MVC approach similar to frameworks such as Apache Struts or Spring MVC, making it easy to build web applications with controllers and views.
This repository has been updated to Jakarta EE 11 / Jakarta MVC 3.0.
Note
Jakarta MVC is not part of Jakarta EE 11, but it may be included in a future release. GlassFish already ships with built-in Jakarta MVC support.
The following screenshots show the running example application, which is a simple task list manager. The home page displays the list of tasks, and the "Add Task" page allows users to create new tasks.
- Jakarta EE 10: see the EE 10 archive release.
- Jakarta EE 8: see the v1.0 archive release.
Jakarta MVC is built on top of the Jakarta REST API, reusing its annotations and request/response model, and adds specialized APIs for action-oriented workflows.
Eclipse Krazo is currently the only Jakarta MVC implementation; it supports the following Jakarta REST runtimes:
- Jersey (GlassFish / Payara)
- RESTEasy (WildFly)
Apache CXF– support removed in MVC 2.0
Warning
Jakarta MVC 3.0 / Eclipse Krazo 4.0 replaced Facelets with Jakarta Pages as the default view engine. Because Jakarta Pages lacks a composite-view layout mechanism, this sample restores the deleted FaceletsViewEngine and continues using the original Facelets views.
- Java 21
- Apache Maven 3.x or 4.x (latest)
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/hantsy/jakartaee-mvc-sample
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Start the application on GlassFish:
mvn clean package cargo:run -pglassfish
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Run the integration tests against the GlassFish managed adapter:
mvn clean verify -Parg-glassfish-managed
Warning
To cut down on maintenance, configuration for WildFly, OpenLiberty, Payara, etc. has been removed. If you need to run on those servers, please consult the jakartaee9‑starter‑boilerplate or jakartaee10‑starter‑boilerplate projects and add the appropriate configuration yourself.