[jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Review for Approval: Jakarta EE Specificatio

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The minutes for the September 17th Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our call on October 1st.

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - September 17th, 2025

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu

Emily Jiang - IBM - Tom Watson

Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov

Andrew Pielage (chair)  - Payara - Petr Aubrecht

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

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Marcelo Ancelmo - Participant Member -  Abraham Marin-Perez

Werner Keil - Committer Member

Jun Qian - Primeton Information Technologies - Enterprise Member

Zhai Luchao -  Shandong Cvicse Middleware Co. - Enterprise Member

Guest - Jakarta EE 12 co-release coordinators: Jared Anderson, James Perkins

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the minutes from the September 3rd, 2025 meeting as drafted - 

Agenda:

• EE 11 Update [Ed Burns]
• Retrospective update
• [Carry over from July 9th]: 
• Retrospective was done on the platform call (issue link, document link)
• Need to review retro link to figure out what may need action by spec committee vs others
• Any remaining business on EE11
• Jakarta EE 12 Update [Jared Anderson]
• Created a dashboard (here)
• Working towards milestone1. OSSH is a semi-blocker for this milestone1 release. Aiming for the end of October for this release.
• Started a ballot to combine the platform and TCK projects. The ballot ends on 24th September.
• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of specifications progressing through the JESP specification version lifecycle
• Issue #55 - TCK Archive Format [Ed Bratt]
• Check in on Ed Bratt’s PR: pending
• Issue #83 - Clean up and clarify how to list TCK service releases on spec pages [Andrew Pielage]
• Check on progress of pull requests
• Open the remaining PRs and merge the PRs
• Issue #74 - TCK challenge automatic acceptance - [Ed Bratt]
• Check on progress of specifications
• Jared to bring up on the next Platform call to get the spec teams to think about this.
• Issue #58 - TCK challenge templates [Andrew Pielage]
• Check on progress of pull requests
• Jared to bring up on the next Platform call to get the spec teams to review the PR and either comment or merge the PR.
• Issue #82 - Consistent approach for TCK challenge exclusions [Ed Bratt]
• Carry over from February 19th: TCK Process should be updated with something akin to Scott Starks suggestion.
• Review other open issues:
• Determine which issues to label as “enhancement” and add to our board
• Close issues which are no longer relevant or have been dealt with

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Andrew Pielage
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