Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition
(Java EE) Specification, v8
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Specification: JSR-366 Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 8 Specification ("Specification")
Ve r sion: 8 .0
Status: Final Release
Specification Lead: Oracle America, Inc. ("Specification Lead")
Release: August 2017
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are or would be infringed by all technically feasible implementations of the Specification to develop,
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You initiate a claim against Oracle that its making, having made, using, offering to sell, selling or
importing a Compliant Implementation infringes Your patent rights.
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implementation of the Specification that neither derives from any of Oracle's source code or binary code
materials nor, except with an appropriate and separate license from Oracle, includes any of Oracle's
source code or binary code materials; "Licensor Name Space" shall mean the public class or interface
declarations whose names begin with "java", "javax", "com.sun" and “com.oracle” or their equivalents in
any subsequent naming convention adopted by Oracle through the Java Community Process, or any
recognized successors or replacements thereof; and "Technology Compatibility Kit" or "TCK" shall mean
the test suite and accompanying TCK User's Guide provided by Oracle which corresponds to the
Specification and that was available either (i) from Oracle 120 days before the first release of Your
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days from such release but against which You elect to test Your implementation of the Specification.
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with 48 C.F.R. 227.7201 through 227.7202-4 (for Department of Defense (DoD) acquisitions) and with 48
C.F.R. 2.101 and 12.212 (for non-DoD acquisitions).
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