The official bundles contained classes with empty methods, causing errors in some use cases, such as Arquillian tests. 

See this post: https://community.jboss.org/wiki/WhatsTheCauseOfThisExceptionJavalangClassFormatErrorAbsentCode

From this blog:
"Sun/Oracle stripped out the code from classes that are classified as "implementations". So all the interfaces are code complete, yet any abstract class or implementation class has no code in it"

For piece of mind, I would suggest using the same version of jars shipped with the application server you are using. If you are using JBoss/WildFly, stick to the jboss bundles.

Cheers

Chris

 
Message: 7
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 03:03:44 -0500
From: "hanasaki@gmail.com" <hanasaki@gmail.com>
Subject: [wildfly-dev] API differences javax EE6 vs JBoss EE6 specs
To: wildfly-dev@lists.jboss.org
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What are the differences between the JBoss EE6 API and the Oracle EE6
API as specified by the below maven dependencies?  What issues, if any,
are there in using the oracle javax api spec?  Since the spec is final,
wouldn't there be no differences to expect?

Thank you.

reference info below:

         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax</groupId>
             <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
             <version>6.0</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>

<groupId>org.jboss.spec</groupId>
        <artifactId>jboss-javaee-6.0</artifactId>
        <artifactId>jboss-javaee-all-6.0</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.2.Final</version>
</dependency>


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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:26:05 +0200
From: Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel@hibernate.org>
Subject: Re: [wildfly-dev] API differences javax EE6 vs JBoss EE6
        specs
To: "hanasaki@gmail.com" <hanasaki@gmail.com>
Cc: wildfly-dev@lists.jboss.org
Message-ID: <20140521082605.GD12589@hibernate.org>
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They are binary identical as it is checked by the TCK.

The reason we have our own AFAIR is that
- when we work on a preview of the spec, we need to write our own
  anyways as the Oracle teams don't necessarily have the same timeframe
- there is some license subtleties involved and we prefer to write our
  own from a clean room.
- some APIs have actual code - and thus bugs - and we want to be able to
  fix them - and have.

Emmanuel

On Wed 2014-05-21  3:03, hanasaki@gmail.com wrote:
> What are the differences between the JBoss EE6 API and the Oracle EE6
> API as specified by the below maven dependencies?  What issues, if any,
> are there in using the oracle javax api spec?  Since the spec is final,
> wouldn't there be no differences to expect?
>
> Thank you.
>
> reference info below:
>
>          <dependency>
>              <groupId>javax</groupId>
>              <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>
>              <version>6.0</version>
>              <scope>compile</scope>
>          </dependency>
>
> <groupId>org.jboss.spec</groupId>
>       <artifactId>jboss-javaee-6.0</artifactId>
>       <artifactId>jboss-javaee-all-6.0</artifactId>
>       <version>3.0.2.Final</version>
> </dependency>
> _______________________________________________
> wildfly-dev mailing list
> wildfly-dev@lists.jboss.org
> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/wildfly-dev


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