J2EE 1.4 Platform Specification Proposed Final Draft 2 J2EE Specification sets out a set of requirements that J2EE Platform product must meet. It specifies platform architecture, application components, containers, set of standard J2EE services, interoperability requirements and platform contracts (APIs, SPIs, network protocols and deployment descriptors). New technologies in J2EE 1.4 Platform: Java API for XML-Based RPC (JAX-RPC), SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ), Web Services for J2EE, J2EE Management Model, J2EE Deployment API, Java Management Extensions (JMX), J2EE Authorization Contract for Containers, Java API for XML Registries (JAXR).