Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2021-09-07

Present:

• Kevin Sutter (IBM)
• Emily Jiang (IBM)
• Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
• Jesse McConnell (Webtide)
• Werner Keil (Committer, Ambassador)
• Dmitry Kornilov (Oracle)
• John Clingan (Red Hat)
• Brian Stansberry (Red Hat)
• BJ Hargrave (IBM)
• Thomas Watson (IBM)
• Scott Stark (Red Hat)
• Lukas Jungmann (Oracle)
• Ed Bratt (Oracle)
• Cesar Hernández (Tomitribe)
• Jean-Louis Monteiro (Tomitribe)
• Kenji Kazumura (Fujitsu)

Agenda and Minutes

Jakarta EE 10 (standing agenda item)

• Individual Specifications
  • Ideal target date for release October 15
  • Last call date for release December 15
• Reorganizing the specs
  • Pull out common things to be shared between profiles
  • Agree on a structure
  • Create a new (or modified) repository etc
  • Revisit the discussion on what and how
  • Look at how it was done with the TCK User Guides regarding common stuff
• Monitor progress of the individual specs
  • Project Board in the top level project OR platform project?
    • Create issues in the individual project issue trackers?
      • Use the triage GitHub feature?
        • Possible to add users that are not committers in the project to issues
        • Ed will send out the description used in MicroProfile
  • Tracking spreadsheet in the Specification Committee
• CDI Lite status
  • Standard around metamodel for annotations being discussed
    • Break out https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/cdi/tree/master/api/src/main/java/jakarta/enterprise/lang/model ?
  • Other projects should look at what’s going on in these discussions in CDI
    • Avoid duplication
• Strategy around extracting common functionality (Dmitry)
  • Not in the EE 10 time frame, but discussion should be started
  • Start on the mailing lists, then set up a meeting (or an item in this call)
• Generating JavaDocs with Java 11
  • Still some warnings that should be cleaned up