Editing Jakarta XML Registries (section)

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'''Jakarta XML Registries''' ('''JAXR'''; formerly Java API for XML Registries) defines a [[standardization|standard]] [[API]] for [[Jakarta EE]] [[application software|application]]s to access and programmatically interact with various kinds of [[metadata registry|metadata registries]]. JAXR is one of the [[Java XML]] programming APIs. The JAXR API was developed under the [[Java Community Process]] as JSR 93.

JAXR provides a uniform and standard Java API for accessing different kinds of XML-based metadata registry. Current implementations of JAXR support [[ebXML Registry]] version 2.0, and [[UDDI]] version 2.0. More such registries could be defined in the future. JAXR provides an API for the clients to interact with XML registries and a [[service provider interface]] (SPI) for the registry providers so they can plug in their registry implementations. The JAXR API insulates application code from the underlying registry mechanism. When writing a JAXR based client to browse or populate a registry, the code does not have to change if the registry changes, for instance from UDDI to ebXML.

Jakarta XML Registries (JAXR) was removed from Jakarta EE 9.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaltepoth |first1=Christian |date=2020-01-17 |df=mdy |title=A deep dive into the Jakarta EE 9 Release Plan |work=JAXenter |publisher=Software & Support Media |url=https://jaxenter.com/jakarta-ee-9-release-plan-deep-dive-166910.html |access-date=2020-12-05}}</ref>