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Jakarta EE Platform Call
Date: 2026-10-20

Present:

  • Jared Anderson (IBM)
  • Kyle Aure (IBM)
  • John Clingan (IBM)
  • Scott Marlow (IBM)
  • James Perkins (IBM)
  • Nathan Rauh (IBM)
  • Arjan Tijms (OmniFish)
  • Jan Westerkamp (iJUG)
  • Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
  • Michael Redlich (Garden State JUG)
  • César Hernández (Tomitribe)

Top of mind for Jared, James

  • CCRs
    • 6 remaining from Payara, but they have issues
  • Platform TCK call 11:00 ET on Wednesday
  • Jakarta EE Community Open Call
    • ![📅][image1] When: October 20th at 12:30 PM ET

    • ![📍][image2] Where: Zoom Link

    • Agenda
      • 👋 Welcome & Introductions: Emily: 2 mins
      • 🚀 Jakarta EE 12 Delivery Update: Jared/James: 5 mins
      • 📦 Jakarta Data 1.1: Nathan/Otavio: 10 mins
      • 🤖 Jakarta Agentic AI: Steve: 10 mins
      • 🗺️ Jakarta EE Long-Term Roadmap: 10 mins
      • 💬 Open Discussion: Emily to lead

OCX 2027

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

Jakarta EE 12

  • M8 week 4 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
      • To release Core profile November 30
        • Components specs would need to start release review by Oct 30
        • Core Profile release review start by Nov 13
    • Need TCK updates for Core Profile
      • Version updates
      • Integration testing additions?
      • Arjan will setup the CI jobs for running the TCK
      • James will try to find time to look at the release jobs
        • (EE4J Parent POM version 2.0.6)
    • Core Profile implementation for ratification discussed
      • Likely would be Glassfish
      • Small possibility of a Wildfly preview / alpha release
    • Annotations
      • No traction for a 3.1 release.
    • CDI
      • 5.0 Final release is published
    • JSON-B
      • M2 PR is created
        • Staged version of yasson passes the M2 TCK
        • Yasson M2 will also be released
      • 3.1.0 M1 Yasson is released. It passes the M1 TCK
      • Will need JSON-P release before do final release of JSON-B
    • 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 approved to move to Web Profile
        • Need to update the spec and jakartaee api
    • 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 M3 API released last week
      • 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 last month
        • 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
      • Discussion from the Persistence spec team about removing the duplicate TCK tests from the platform-tck.
    • 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
  • Open Forum
    • MicroProfile updates
      • Ballots are out for OpenTelemetry, OpenAPI, JWT Auth and MicroProfile Platform.
        • Please vote if you can.
    • Jakarta EE Future Directions Meeting
      • October 29, 2026, 12:00 EDT
      • Continuation of MicroProfile folding under Jakarta EE
    • EclipseLink Update
      • Robert Patrick from Oracle is also looking at the integrating and the implementation.
    • NoSQL
      • Is there a plan to still get this into Jakarta EE 12.
      • There is no open ballot, but someone can raise the ballot.
      • From the October 6 call:
        • https://speakerdeck.com/otaviojava/jakarta-nosql-1-dot-1
        • Otavio shared slides showing the current status of the NoSQL 1.1 API for application use. Communication API that was discussed previously and is now included in 1.1
        • Previously discussed 1.2 function and that is in 1.1 now
        • The API doesn’t depend on a configuration model. Only the implementation does

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