Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2021-05-04

Present:

• Jesse McConnell (Webtide)
• Ed Bratt (Oracle)
• Emily Jiang (IBM)
• Jean-Louis Monteiro (Tomitribe)
• Otávio Santana
• Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
• Werner Keil
• Thomas Watson (IBM)
• John Clingan (Red Hat)
• Scott Marlow (Red Hat)
• Darran Lofthouse (Red Hat)
• Dmitry Kornilov (Oracle)
• Lukas Jungmann (Oracle)
• Roberto Cortez (Red Hat)
• Kevin Sutter (IBM)
• Scott Stark (Red Hat)
• Tanja Obradovic (Eclipse Foundation)
• Brian Stansberry (Red Hat)

Agenda and Minutes

Jakarta EE 9.1

• Ballot started: https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec/msg01619.html
• Ballot ends May 17
• Announcement still on for May 25

Jakarta Config Proposal

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dED5v0KgPtCuRlxif6cI_V_G2nKlDCwz3vZETNBgRzY/edit?ts=6086ed3c&pli=1
• Dmitry will create the project proposal: https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/jakarta-config
• Initial committers can be added there up until the project is provisioned by the EMO

Statement of direction

• The Steering committee has asked us to provide a statement of direction to be announced with the Jakarta EE 9.1 release
• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/issues/352
• Action for all this week:
  • Review the issue
  • Comment
  • Scott will incorporate result after discussions
  • Will be presented at the Steering Committee on May 11

Jakarta EE Core Profile

• Scott will create an issue
• Creation/Plan review PR: https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/349
• Ivar will update the PR:
  • “To provide a profile that contains a set of Jakarta EE Specifications targeting smaller runtimes suitable for microservices and ahead-of-time compilation.”
• Discussed preview releases

Jakarta EE 10

• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AEE10

Architectural Guidelines Document

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WYcZOcJmQF4PKSwxPcgpKmg71c3LCmHcyh07ZF-rnew/edit
• Should this be a part of the specification? Requirements or Guidelines?
  • Items that result in TCK tests must be considered to be part of the spec

Version/Release Strategy Discussion

• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/issues/332
• Establishing a release cadence?
• Will vendors accept time-boxed releases
• Is there a conceptual issue with releasing Core Profile 10 independent of the Platform 10?
• Scott will create a document linked to the issue for discussing versioning options