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[jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Review for approval: Jakarta EE Specification Committee Meeting Minutes - July 28th, 2021

The minutes for the July 28th Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our call on August 25th.

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - July 28th, 2021 [1300 UTC]

Attendees (present in bold):


Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu

Dan Bandera - IBM - Kevin Sutter, Tom Watson

Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov

Andrew Pielage - Payara - Matt Gill

Scott Stark - Red Hat - Mark Little, Scott Marlow

David Blevins - Tomitribe - Jean-Louis Monteiro, Cesar Hernandez

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Marcelo Ancelmo - Participant Member - Martijn Verburg

Werner Keil - Committer Member

Jun Qian - Primeton - Enterprise Member 

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic, Paul Buck (chair)


Past business / action items:

  • Approval is requested for the meeting minutes from the July 14th meeting as drafted - Approved.


Agenda:

  • Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of individual specs progress through the JESP

  • Plan Review ballot results are missing from these specification web pages:

    • Mail 2.1 - Andrew Pielage - done

    • XML Binding 4.0 - Marcelo/Martijn - pending

    • XML Web Services 4.0 - Jun Qian (Ivar) - done

    • Activation 2.1 - David/Jean-Louis - done

    • Security 3.0 (Page is missing for 3.0) - David/Jean-Louis - done

  • “Removal” of Optional Features - See agenda from 07/14 for background and related discussions on the jakarta.ee-spec.committee mailing list

    • Next steps were discussed and documented below 

    • Proposal from EE 10 draft release plan

      • Remove EJB Entity Bean (BMP & CMP) and Embeddable Container features in EE 10

To be worked and decided by the Platform Project

  • Curtail the use of "optional features" in platform and component specifications

Spec Committee will take the position via a resolution to require this for component specifications in Jakarta EE 10

PROPOSED RESOLUTION: The Specification Committee resolves that no new optional features will be added in Jakarta EE 10 and beyond in component, Platform, or Profile specifications.

The chair will initiate a 7 day ballot with this resolution on the public Spec Discussion mailing list

  • The Specification Committee chair is unavailable for the meeting scheduled on August, 11th. The chair proposes to cancel the meeting for a summer break for the committee. Next scheduled meeting would therefore be held on August 25th and 1300 UTC.

    • No objections were noted to canceling the meeting on August 11th, our next call will be on August 25th

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