Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2024-09-24

Present:

• John Clingan (Red Hat)
• James Perkins (Red Hat)
• Jan Westerkamp (iJUG)
• Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
• Petr Aubrecht (Payara)
• Jared Anderson (IBM)
• Kyle Aure (IBM)
• Riva Philip (IBM)
• Nathan Rauh (IBM)
• Tom Watson (IBM)
• Cesar Hernandez (Tomitribe)
• Scott Marlow (Red Hat)
• Ed Burns (Microsoft)
• Kenji Kazumura (Fujitsu)
• Emily Jiang (IBM, joined the 2nd half)

Agenda and Minutes

Top-of-mind from Ed, Arjan and Jared

• TCK refactoring description for marketing team to include in press release.
• Status of GlassFish 8.0-JDK17 branch
  • Is there a release of this yet?
  • Or must one build it from source?
  • They are cutting releases from the JDK17 branch whenever they do a milestone release from the 8.0 primary branch.
  • The “milestone 7” release from the 8.0-JDK 17 branch is suitable for use as the ratifying compatible implementation for EE 11.
    • Work remains to be done to pass the platform TCK.
    • The component TCKs are currently all passing, running under CI, except for data, which is done by hand.
      • https://ci.eclipse.org/jakartaee-tck/view/EFTL-Certification-Jobs-11/job/11/job/standalone-tck/job/eftl-jakartaeetck-run-standalone/
• Scott Marlow’s appclient configuration question:
  • EE 11 + is there a Jakarta EE portable way for Application Client Containers to identify the client jar in an EAR?
    • Jared found this current text in platform spec, section 8.5.2 #6
      If the .jar file contains a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file with a Main-Class attribute, or contains a META-INF/application-client.xml file, consider the .jar file to be an application client module.
    • Marlow: https://jakarta.ee/specifications/platform/11/jakarta-platform-spec-11.0-m4#a3179 is the current EE 11 text that mentions what Jared found. Thank you!
      • https://jakarta.ee/specifications/platform/10/jakarta-platform-spec-10.0#a2948 covers the Bundled Library requirement:
        • A .ear file may contain a directory that contains libraries packaged in JAR files. The library-directory element of the .ear file’s deployment descriptor contains the name of this directory. If a library-directory element isn’t specified, or if the .ear file does not contain a deployment descriptor, the directory named lib is used. An empty library-directory element may be used to specify that there is no library directory.
          
          All files in this directory (but not subdirectories) with a .jar extension must be made available to all components packaged in the EAR file, including application clients. These libraries may reference other libraries, either bundled with the application or installed separately, using any of the techniques described herein.
      • ACTION: steps 6 and 7 use the word “consider”. Modify the wording to include “must”.
• [Emily] Each spec needs to have a TCK challenge template. I have started creating the template but it will be great for the spec team to copy the sample and commit to the spec repo.

Refactoring Progress Report

• We have 8 weeks including this one.
• https://github.com/orgs/jakartaee/projects/12/views/1
  • Looking at the Refactoring section: for the five items listed as In review what remains to be done to get those to Done?
  • ACTION: Ed to audit the In review tasks to see if they can be moved to Done.
• Refactoring progress report
  • 2024-11-18 at 50%. Update from Scott Stark or Scott Marlow
  • ACTION: Ed to compute new confidence level.
• Manage risk for “Switching horses in midstream” for TCK runner
  • What is the status of others switching over to using the GlassFish runner?
    • Scott Marlow reports he will try to use the GlassFish runner today or tomorrow, for the JPA tests.

Jakarta EE 11

• Can we release the Core Profile ahead of the rest of it, with Liberty as the ratifying compatible implementation?
  • Or any other implementation? Helidon?
  • The Core Profile TCK does have less than 20 tests, in addition to the component tests.
  • Vendors indicated generally positive expectations to passing the Core Profile TCK.
  • From Jakarta EE Platform spec 2.2: “[Profiles] are released at completion on their own schedule, independently of any concurrent revision of the platform itself or of other profiles”
  • ACTION: Ed to bring this up on the platform-tck mailing list.
• ACTION: Ed: Milestone 5 release of spec including: get that out by mid-October.
  • JEA-441: Ed Spec updates for CDI and Persistence changes.
  • JEA-248: Ed Changes in EE 11 section
  • Try to follow the recommendations Ed Bratt gave to Ed Burns over Slack.

Jakarta EE 12

• Created an initial draft for a Release Plan for Jakarta EE 12. It will be flushed out more over the next few months.
• Cross cutting issues to consider for EE 12 that were brought up
  • AppClient deprecation for future removal
  • Continued platform component TCKs moving to their projects \
• Specs should add TCK template for creating challenges
  • Another example is https://github.com/jakartaee/platform-tck/tree/main/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE but that is over 4 years old and could use an update.