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Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2026-05-26

Present:

  • Jan Westerkamp (iJUG)
  • John Clingan (IBM) - 1st half of call
  • Michael Redlich (Garden State JUG)
  • Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
  • Nathan Rauh (IBM)
  • Kyle Aure (IBM)
  • Tom Watson (IBM)
  • Anand N K (IBM)
  • Emily Jiang (IBM)
  • Scott Marlow (IBM)
  • Cesar Hernandez (Tomitribe)

Top of mind for Jared, James

  • Ivar is running the call today. Jared and James out this week
  • New CCRs came in last week, 6 of which were for Liberty as promised
    • Once the Liberty CCRs are approved, this PR can be moved out of draft and Reza can review and approve it.
  • Olivier created a PR to update the jakartaee-api to have all the latest component spec milestone versions in it

Jakarta EE 12

  • M5 week 2 of 6 starts this week (M5 ends June 30)
  • Core Profile progress
    • CDI
      • 5.0.0.Beta1 is released
    • JSON-B
      • Working on CI job updates - done
      • Service release for 3.0.2 produced
      • Aiming to have a milestone for 3.1.0 release soon, definitely this week
    • JSON-P
      • Started working on CI job updates
      • Aiming to have a milestone release soon
      • No updates this week
    • REST
      • James is out for 2 weeks. Don’t expect a lot of progress until he returns
  • Update Release Plan

  • SNAPSHOT Releases of the Jakarta EE API publishes nightly

  • Marlow: EE 11 TCK challenge?
    • As per slack discussion
      • mvn clean verify -f platform_pom.xml -Pee -Dit.test=ee.jakarta.tck.persistence.ee.packaging.ejb.exclude.ClientTest
        • `Could not deploy jpa_ee_packaging_ejb_exclude.ear as jpa_ee_packaging_ejb_exclude`
        • `Could not resolve a persistence unit corresponding to the persistence-context-ref-name [ee.jakarta.tck.persistence.ee.packaging.ejb.exclude.Stateful3Bean/entityManager] in the scope of the module called [jpa_ee_packaging_ejb_exclude#appclientproxy.war]. Please verify your application.`
        • `A TCK challenge should be opened and either the (11.0.x) test excluded or updated. If we exclude the test, we can figure out a more portable update for EE 12`
    • First challenge to be reported from GlassFish?
  • Redlich: Arjan Tijms will provide an update on the new features of Jakarta Concurrency 3.2 at the Jakarta EE Future Directions meeting scheduled for May 28, 2026 at 12:00 EDT.
  • MP (Config) merge into Jakarta EE?
    • Jan will present his “future directions” presentation on the next call
  • Jakarta NoSQL
    • Otavio will present about the “driver communication” on the next call

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