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Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2020-03-24

Present:

  • Kevin Sutter (IBM)
  • Scott Marlow (Red Hat)
  • Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
  • Tanja Obradovic (Eclipse Foundation)
  • Jonathan Gallimore (Tomitribe)
  • Dalia Abo Sheasha (IBM)
  • Jesse McConnell (Webtide)
  • Ed Bratt (Oracle)
  • Bill Shannon (Oracle)
  • Paul Nicolucci (IBM)
  • Jonathan Coustick (Payara)
  • Steve Millidge (Payara)
  • Werner Keil (Committer)
  • Andy McCright (IBM)
  • Martin Stefanko (Red Hat)
  • Edwin Amoakwa
  • Carlos Andres De La Rosa(Eclipse committer)
  • Nathan Erwin (Eclipse Contributor)
  • Scott Kurz (IBM)
  • Emily Jiang (IBM)
  • Scott Stark (Red Hat)
  • BJ Hargrave (IBM)

Agenda

[IG, BS] Suggestions for Call Logistics

  • Always have the call (even with empty agenda upfront)
  • Agendas are everyone’s responsibility. Anyone can add agenda items to the list – just indicate who originated the agenda item with name or initials.
  • Meeting reminder (at least 24 hours before call)
  • Start Zoom early (1 hour) and display banner with start time
    • difficult to accomplish since we can only have one zoom call active at any one time. Or, other meetings may conflict.
    • FYI, next week’s call puts us back in sync (due to daylight savings time difference between US and Europe)
  • If meeting ends early, leave Zoom session running with banner displaying that information
    • This should be doable
  • Everyone should add their own name to the agenda/minutes as attending the call
  • Everyone please help keep minutes :)
  • Last week’s unmeeting was recorded via Bill Shannon keeping minutes, we should do that for future unofficial calls.

[IG] XML Schemas

  • Complete (xml schemas) spreadsheet
    • Speak up if any schemas are missing
    • Does JAXB have any schemas? (Ed was going to check with Dmitry)
  • Preview: https://deploy-preview-691–jakartaee.netlify.com/xml/ns/jakartaee/
    • A question was asked (Kevin Sutter?) about whether the format could become too long, and if we needed to create a more compact format where we would link out to the different versions
      • For now, we’ll follow the format used by Java EE and just leave everything on a single page with a TOC at the top of the page
      • Watch the “deploy link” above to see how this page evolves based input before the PR gets merged…
    • BIll Shannon shared the link http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/jsc/xml/ns/javaee/index.html as an example
  • Release Process:
    • Every project producing a schema is responsible for publishing it to jakarta.ee
    • Publish by submitting a PR to https://github.com/jakartaee/jakarta.ee
      • Add the schema to static/xml/ns/jakartaee
      • Update the descriptor file data/schemas.yml
      • Ivar will be documenting the process. This should probably become part of the PR Template that is used for the Spec Versions releases.
  • Suggested Namespace: https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee - DECISION
    • Some non-platform namespace examples:
      • http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_1_0.xsd
      • http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_2.xsd
      • http://www.jboss.org/xml/ns/javax/validation/configuration/validation-configuration-1.1.xsd
      • https://beanvalidation.org/xml/ns/validation/validation-configuration-2.0.xsd
    • Can applications still reference non-platform namespace in EE9 (ie. persistence)?
      • Yes, this would be allowed.
    • Bean Validation is currently using the xml/ns/javaee (sic) namespace in the M1 version of BV 3.0.0 and plans to move to the jakartaee namespace.

[KWS] Eclipse Transformer Project proposal

(moved to end of agenda since BJ can’t attend until the bottom of the hour due to a last minute conflict)

  • https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-transformer
  • BJ Hargrave will be walking us through the proposal and educate us on the capabilities of this Transformer project
  • Initial goal of this project is to help with the javax to jakarta namespace update, but it could be extended to other use cases
  • BJ works on the BND project and built the transformer initial prototype around the transformation project (built on BND).
  • Could do transformation at runtime via classloader, or build time.
  • Potential use as a shader to help with bridging between JPMS modules and OSGi bundles.
  • Main use case is Jakarta EE.
  • Concern about extra stuff included, as people might not want everything included.
    • Being able to plugin less should be possible to achieve.
  • Handling Class.forName(String) by intercepting and handling different names passed.
  • Injecting property handling at runtime, that is similar to Class.forName() problem.
  • Is this project looking at source level?
    • No, use existing IDE + other tools for refactoring
  • Does tracking of this project need to be at platform level?
    • https://github.com/tbitonti/jakartaee-prototype/issues is for community discussion
    • Will move to Eclipse project on github once proposal is accepted and provisioned
    • Are there any gotchas of this not being a JakartaEE (EE4J) project?

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