Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2021-03-16

Present:

• Andy McCright (IBM)
• BJ Hargrave (IBM)
• Jesse McConnell (Webtide)
• Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
• Brian Stansberry (Red Hat)
• David Blevins (Tomitribe)
• Jean-Louis Monteiro (Tomitribe)
• Thomas Watson (IBM)
• Dmitry Kornilov (Oracle)
• Werner Keil (Committer)
• Tanja Obradovic (Eclipse Foundation)
• Scott Marlow (Red Hat)
• Kenji Kazumura (Fujitsu)
• Kevin Sutter (IBM)
• Steve Millidge (Payara)
• Nathan Erwin (Individual)
• Cesar Hernandez (Tomitribe)
• Ed Bratt (Oracle)
• Lukas Jungmann (Oracle)
• Martin Stefanko (Red Hat)
• Emily Jiang (IBM)
• Vano Beridze (Individual)

Agenda and Minutes

Jakarta EE 9.1

• Paperwork type stuff completed after last week’s call – Schedule update, Project status, Issues created and linked.

• TCK Status
  • https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-tck/wiki/Jakarta-EE-9.1-TCK-results shows 1697 test failures.
  • Discussed signature tests for PortableRemoteObject#narrow
  • https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-tck/pull/651 needs review from David
  • David + Scott to team up on ejb 2.x keyword TCK grouping changes
    • Currently disabling entity beans disables more than just entity beans.
• Agenda item for next week: Set a new release date

General discussion topics for future releases (from last week’s agenda)

• Input from Scott: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EEd9NEnGYnAo03VCmHIbU9JrY1O02HAh/view?usp=sharing

• Input from Ivar: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1THhvjZazSFpDE95rqtcdQXgBQxa-B3aMFksq8xKJo08/edit?usp=sharing

• Release Profiles Independently
  • Seems to be consensus that this is a good idea
  • Create a document to suggest composition of profiles - Ivar
• New features in new and existing specifications
  • CDI Lite
  • Jakarta REST - CDI Alignment
  • MVC - lazy loading, partial page load
• Continue this topic next week