Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2022-10-04

Present:

• Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
• Jared Anderson (IBM)
• Emily Jiang (IBM)
• Jim Krueger (IBM)
• Nathan Rauh (IBM)
• Thomas Watson (IBM)
• Dmitry Kornilov (Oracle)
• Scott Marlow (Red Hat)
• Arjan Tijms (OmniFaces)
• Petr Aubrecht (Payara)
• Ed Burns (Microsoft)
• John Clingan (Red Hat)
• Lukas Jungmann (Oracle)
• Jan Westerkamp (iJUG)
• Nathan Erwin (Individual)
• Jesse McConnell (Webtide)
• Scott Stark (Red Hat)
• Werner Keil (Individual)
• Cesar Hernandez (Tomitribe)

Agenda and Minutes

Baseline Java SE Level

• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/issues/553
• Discussion around levels
• Suggestion to use Java SE 17 for API language level
• Specifications without changes won’t need to be recompiled with SE 17
• Support 17 and 21 for runtimes (TCK must be possible to run with both)
• Run a poll for the specification projects
  • Who’s planning for 21 features?
  • Would a EE 10.1 be interesting (with SE 17 minimum or add SE 21 support)?
  • Run a Java SE feature poll for EE 11

SecurityManager removal

• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/issues/551
• Need to get an overview of which specifications that are affected by the SecurityManager removal
  • Authorization (explicit use of policies)
  • Authentication
  • Security
  • TCKs
  • ..
• Merge the three security specifications into one specification project? Still to be released as three separate specifications. Today Security and Authn in Web Profile and Authz in Platform
• Need to understand/know how Security Manager removal will be done in SE 21

CDI Centric

• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/issues/552
• Write down implications/requirements for specification projects
  • What they can/cannot do
• Map Gaps
  • Injection mechanisms used etc.
  • Concurrency based on JNDI
  • Context propagation
  • Servlet
• EJB Features
  • Singleton Bean (ApplicationScoped in CDI + locking from EJB)
  • Drop EJB, or EJB as CDI Beans?
• CDI features that are “owned” by other specifications
  • E.g. HttpServletRequest must be made injectable by the Servlet spec
  • Optional for non-CDI containers (e.g. Jetty)
  • @Transactional now owned by the Transactions specification, but inconsistently UserTransaction injected is specified by the CDI spec

Items for Monthly call agenda (“Monthly Platform Architecture Call”)

• Nov 1 meeting agenda capture issue: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/issues/562
• Architecture discussion
• CDI Centric (epic)
  • Servlet
  • REST
• How do we ensure other specifications/teams show up?
  • Invite, encourage, blog, tweet, advertise
  • Specifically invite specifications that are among the agenda topics

TCK refactoring

• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/issues/559
• SecurityManager is a big issue to address
• Plan for decoupling
• Monthly TCK call is tomorrow
  • Agenda Jakarta EE Platform TCK Call - Google Docs
• Discuss more on next call

Jakarta EE. Next further discussion

• googledoc