Apache OpenEJB and Apache TomEE are born from the same project and community. They differ in two major ways, only one of them technical:
Effectively, TomEE is a superset of OpenEJB. They share the same code and TomEE grew out of OpenEJB.
| Tomcat | TomEE | TomEE JAXRS | TomEE+ | OpenEJB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Servlets | |||||
| Java ServerPages (JSP) | |||||
| Java ServerFaces (JSF) | |||||
| Java Transaction API (JTA) | |||||
| Java Persistence API (JPA) | |||||
| Java Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) | |||||
| Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) | |||||
| Java Authorization Contract for Containers (JACC) | |||||
| JavaMail API | |||||
| Bean Validation | |||||
| Enterprise JavaBeans | |||||
| Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) | |||||
| Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) | |||||
| Java EE Connector Architecture | |||||
| Java Messaging Service (JMS) |