The current activities in Jakarta EE are mainly related to the new transfer release.
Please rename the version from 9 to 8.1.
I remember the
Vote of users in Java EE Guardians several years ago when we voted for
alignment between EE and SE and the release time alignment as well.
IMO
the Java Modules would be something very natural in Jakarta EE 9
because not only Maven POM but also the binary file of the API would
declare that it is dependent on another API.
It would be clear
for the build tool to build the EE application with tailor made
container and no list of api-layers would have to be specified by the
user in the build tool.
I think this would be a big jump in EE 9 but with SE 9 in the area of Microservices and such profile.
Pls
reserve the version number 9 for what i have described, rename this
"transfer" release to 8.1 and try to be consistent with the original
idea of alignment with SE releases; otherwise the number would be really
meaningless.
Accepting the version 8.1 would also mean that we have started with very fast feature releases, e.g. 9.1, 9.2, etc. Additionally, some new APIs may have later release time, for instance 9.1 and the other or unrelated APIs would not have to wait for the whole umbrella of major version.
Cheers
Tibor17
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