The document provides an overview of new concepts and features in Java EE 6, including profiles like Web Profile 1.0 that define subsets of the platform, new specifications like Managed Beans 1.0 and Interceptors 1.1, and updates to existing specifications such as EJB 3.1, JPA 2.0, Servlet 3.0, and JSF 2.0. It discusses concepts like pruning of specifications, portable JNDI names, embeddable containers, and the move of Facelets as the preferred view definition language for JSF.