Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2023-08-22

Present:

• Jared Anderson (IBM)
• Jim Krueger (IBM)
• Nathan Rauh (IBM)
• Tom Watson (IBM)
• Lenny Primak (Individual)
• Jan Westerkamp (iJUG)
• Ed Bratt (Oracle)
• Werner Keil (Individual)
• Petr Aubrecht (Payara)
• Lukas Jungmann (Oracle)

Agenda and Minutes

Next steps to get “Make Full / Web profile play nice with MicroProfile maven dependencies” / “Normalize Web Profile Dependencies” PR https://github.com/jakartaee/jakartaee-api/pull/139 merged and over the finish line.

• [Jan] Will try to merge this on the following day, when there is no objection. Update 2023-08-24: #140 was merged before, Lenny rebased and we both reached out for approval by Ed Burns.

Next steps to get “Make build reproducible” PR https://github.com/jakartaee/jakartaee-api/pull/96 over the finish line.

• [Jan] need further investigation, but is worth to push this forward

Jakarta Platform Maintenance (only partially discussed due to time constraints)

• Remaining circular dependencies bedevilling CDI. Jan and Scott to define job-to-be-done in https://github.com/jakartaee/cdi/issues/687#issuecomment-1644757507
• Ed appeals to meeting attendees to help find a way forward. See thread https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakartaee-platform-dev/msg04174.html
• supported versions
• CVE handling
• Jakarta Platform versioning
  • SemVer?
  • Refactoring of the JESP Versioning:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d49zY05ZBqUp3Jqe_bPpYf9HU8GBbvXF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=116336929537635035739&rtpof=true&sd=true
  • Bundle packaging - need to be fixed. Jan will create issues and PRs that need to be reviewed (by OSGi experts at best):
    • Jakarta Security https://github.com/jakartaee/security/issues/293
    • Jakarta REST https://github.com/jakartaee/rest/issues/1174
  • jQA result issue regarding bundle packaging - is expected behaviour and will be fixed by the packaging fix form bundle to JAR