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Jakarta EE Platform Call
Date: 2026-10-06

Present:

  • Jared Anderson (IBM)
  • Kyle Aure (IBM)
  • Neena Jacob (IBM)
  • Anija K A (IBM)
  • Anand N K (IBM)
  • James Perkins (IBM)
  • Nathan Rauh (IBM)
  • Reshmi Vijayan (IBM)
  • Tom Watson (IBM)
  • Otávio Santana
  • Jan Westerkamp (iJUG)
  • Michael Redlich (Garden State JUG)
  • Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)

Top of mind for Jared, James

OCX 2027

  • CfP is open
  • December 6 is the deadline
  • Modern software development is the likely tract to align with Jakarta talks. Can do others as appropriate to any talks.
  • Want to also showcase how applications are using the technology

Jakarta EE 12

  • M8 week 2 of 6 starts this week (M8 ends November 15)
    • Release review must start at the end of this milestone
  • Core Profile progress
    • Targeting 4Q 2026. JakartaOne is December 1
    • Core profile spec updates should be started as well to reflect version changes at least.
    • Core Profile implementation for ratification discussed
      • Likely would be Glassfish
    • Annotations
      • No traction for a 3.1 release yet.
    • CDI
      • 5.0 Final release is published
      • Need to fix up some stuff with the TCK publish
      • CDI published to the Jakarta location when the specification committee should have done that with signature signing. This is resolved now
    • JSON-B
      • 3.1.0 M1 API and TCK is out
      • M2 is in good shape. Just a few updates to be made for some testing and spec for record support
      • 3.1.0 M1 Yasson is released. It passes the M1 TCK
      • M2 release had issues if you update to latest version of maven
        • Requires an update to the parent pom
        • Specs will need to update to the new version
        • Should hopefully will have M2 today
        • Once have a few more TCK tests, will move to RC
    • JSON-P
      • No M1 yet, but is planned
      • Kyle trying to get committership with some PRs
      • PRs are getting in, but no M1 yet
      • Mark had issues with getting Jenkins build updates done. Getting that resolved
    • REST
  • Web Profile progress
    • Authorization
      • No API update yet in Jakarta
      • Vote started to bring it to Web Profile
    • Servlet
      • 6.2.0 M2 API was released around May
        • The specification page still needs to be updated to reflect this version
    • Pages
      • 4.1.0 M2 API also release around May
    • Tags
      • 3.1.0 M2 API released in July
    • Faces
      • 5.0.0 M6 API released
      • Glassfish vNext has faces updates in it
    • Security
      • 5.0.0 M2 API released in May
      • Still need to rehome the API without “enterprise” in the group name
      • Glassfish vNext has security updates in it
    • Transaction
      • Spec / API updates, but no milestone of the API yet.
      • TCK move over from platform PR is there for them to accept
        • Depends on some TCK shared libraries that would want to have an EE 12 TCK milestone release
    • Concurrency
      • 3.2.0 M2 API released in March
      • Working on API updates for issues found
        • Looking to release a M3 soon
      • IBM Liberty is working on implementation. It is the usual ratifying implementation
    • Data
      • 1.1.0 M4 API released
      • Depends on Query releasing before can do final release
    • Expression Language
      • 6.1.0 M2 API released in May
    • Persistence
      • 4.0.0 M7 API released 2 weeks ago
        • The specification page still needs to be updated to reflect this version
      • Depends on Query releasing before can do final release
      • The OmniFish folks are working on EclipseLink 6
    • Query
      • 1.0.0 M2 of the specification is available
      • No API
      • TCK covered by Data, NoSQL and Persistence
    • Validation
      • 4.0.0 M1 API released in October 2025
    • WebSocket
      • 2.3.0 M2 API released in January
    • Enterprise Beans Lite
      • 4.1 has no traction
  • Open Forum
    • MicroProfile updates
      • MP 7.2 issues
        • Having issues with quarkus and helidon being ratifying implementation
      • Discussed also module information in older releases and doing updates in service release for Vidocq
      • Next meeting is Specification meeting next week
      • Found futures call (transcript) helpful. Want to have more of those. Likely will be second half of the month.

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