Comment by monstermonster

Java EE 7 web profile is pretty light. If you consider they put JSF on hold then it points to other bits of Java EE that are probably persistent:

Java EE Web profile, hibernate (via JPA), JAX-RS. That's a pretty good stack.

No JSF, servlets, JSP or EJB and it's all good.

As for Java 8 and containers, what are your issues? Just interested.