Java EE 6 proposed, but voted out

Bill Shannon proposed it to the JCP on April 3, only to be retracted Friday, April 13 2007. The Executive Committee for Java SE/EE has not approved this proposal.

Some snapshots:

First, the suggestions/possibilities to exclude following concepts from Java EE 6:
-EJB CMP - effectively replaced by Java Persistence
-JAX-RPC - effectively replaced by JAX-WS

They proposed to include the following new JSRs in Java EE 6:
-JSR-196 Java Authentication SPI for Containers
-JSR-236 Timer for Application Servers
-JSR-237 Work Manager for Application Servers
-JSR-299 Web Beans
-JSR-311 JAX-RS: Java API for RESTful Web Services

In addition, updation of the following existing technologies for Java EE 6:
-Enterprise JavaBeans
-Java Persistence API
-Servlets
-JavaServer Faces
-JAX-WS

The JSR was expected to be finalized by Q3 2008.

Check out more details on JCP.