Dmitry Kornilov wrote on 06/21/2018 02:30 PM:
Yes, by "platform" I meant something similar
to the Java EE platform (what some people think of as
the "full profile"). Not necessarily everything defined
by the Jakarta EE process, but everything we think
should be made available in full implementations of the
platform.
If there's no interest in defining such a
thing going forward (i.e., there will be no "Jakarta EE
8" or "Jakarta EE 9"), then what's the purpose of
Eclipse GlassFish?
Jakarta EE (8, 9, … , n) can be only a set of APIs + TCKs.
It can be released without any implementation. Implementations
are released sometimes later (after the platform release) to
not be a blocker of the platform release.
As I said previously, Oracle does not support a specification
process that
allows this.
If you want to define "Jakarta EE 8" as "not a specification", and
for which no implementation or compatibility test suite is required,
then that's a different issue. I don't know what you would call
that thing, or decide whether to allow the use of the Jakarta EE
brand with it.
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