Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2026-02-24

Present:

• Jared Anderson (IBM)
• Kyle Aure (IBM)
• John Clingan (IBM)
• Chithra Mini (IBM)
• Anagha Paulson (IBM)
• James Perkins (IBM)
• Nathan Rauh (IBM)
• Brian Stansberry (IBM)
• Reshmi Vijayan (IBM)
• Tom Watson (IBM)
• Jan Westerkamp (iJUG)
• Scott Marlow (IBM)
• Kenji Kazumura (Fujitsu)
• Cesar Hernandez (Tomitribe)

Top of mind for Jared, James

• OSSRH
  • New PRs opened against the parent POM for some problems identified
    • https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/ee4j/pull/117
    • https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/ee4j/pull/118
  • Will want to have a 2.0.1 with the above changes
• No new CCRs this week
• Jakarta EE Future Directions Meeting this week on Thursday at 12:00 PM ET
  • langchain4j-cdi: Infuse your Jakarta and MicroProfile applications with AI

Jakarta EE 12

• MCP server for Jakarta EE API
  • In the next hour on: Jakarta Agentic AI, An Open Conversation https://crowdcast.io/c/feb24-26-jakartaagentic
  • More about making Jakarta EE more relevant in AI
  • This should likely be brought up in the Jakarta EE Steering Committee as well
• Week 2 (of 6) for M3 for the platform
  • Components spec reports
  • Jakarta REST
    • No updates as of yet
• MP Technical Call today at 11:00 PST
  • Discussing the release plan and dates