Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2024-07-23

Present:

• Ed Burns (MSFT)
• James Perkins (Red Hat)
• John Clingan (Red Hat)
• Jared Anderson (IBM)
• Kyle Aure (IBM)
• Anand N K (IBM)
• Riva Philip (IBM)
• Nathan Rauh (IBM)
• Thomas Watson (IBM)
• Adam Yoho (IBM)
• Scott Marlow (Red Hat)
• Petr Aubrecht (Payara)
• César Hernández (Tomitribe)
• Ed Bratt (Oracle)
• Jan Westerkamp (iJUG)

Agenda and Minutes

Top-of-mind from Ed and Arjan

• Ed took DTO Friday and Monday
  • ACTION: Ed to carry forward items after the meeting

TCK Refactoring Progress Report

• Status Board
• Scott Marlow and Ed worked through a simple test removal exercise.
  • Branch actions
    • https://github.com/jakartaee/platform-tck/tree/legacytck contains the removed tests + other tests
    • tckrefactor branch has been renamed to main
    • master branch renamed to notmaster https://github.com/jakartaee/platform-tck/tree/notmaster

Jakarta EE 11

• Service release status?
  • Tags
    • Arjan has staged this service release and is seeking feedback. ACTION: If no feedback, Arjan will release it. See JEA-407.
    • https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/762 is the TCK service release.
      • The TCK side is already done
    • There needs to be a PR to https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pulls to introduce tags 3.0.2 SPEC API
  • EL
    • ACTION: Update dependency version in jakartaee api project.
    • https://github.com/jakartaee/jakartaee-api/pull/167
    • See JEA-411.
    • https://jakarta.ee/specifications/expression-language/6.0/
    • Add EL TCK 6.0.1 service release info by alwin-joseph · Pull Request #768 · jakartaee/specifications (github.com)
    • Release Expression Language 6.0.1 service release by arjantijms · Pull Request #766 · jakartaee/specifications (github.com)
  • API artifacts
    • QUESTION: When do we cut a RC1 release?
      • Service releases
        • Tags JEA-242
        • Connectors JEA-417 ACTION: Ed needs to understand the impact of this on EE 11.
        • EL
      • ANSWER: Yes, let’s cut an RC1 when these are in.
• Conversation on https://github.com/jakartaee/platform/pull/746 seems to be going well, not sure if there are any more questions pending regarding A prototype of adding persistence requirements for CDI in EE environments
  • We need implementations to try it still.
  • We also need a list of what will not work with Persistence CDI in EE.
  • https://github.com/jakartaee/platform-tck/issues/1405 is for adding Platform TCK tests for Persistence integration in EE environments with CDI.
• “Meeting the needs of the developers” blog post. JEA-392

Jakarta EE 12

• Some discussion about removal of Application Client in EE 12. See JEA-414.
  • Informal discussion within IBM about it. No strong opposition to it.

Jakarta EE 10

• https://github.com/jakartaee/faces/issues/1935 TCK challenge proposal to accept the Faces challenge for running on Java 21.
  • The challenge has been accepted by the component spec.