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Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] Rename Jakarta EE 9 to 8.1, introduce the Java Modularity in Jakarta EE 9 and fast feature releases

The current Jakarta EE9 release is correct as we are renaming package names from javax. to jakarta., which is a break change. I would leave modularity support in a much later release.
By the way, I assume all included specs such as CDI, JAX-RS, etc need to bump their major version because of the backward incompatible changes. For instance, CDI will need to release CDI 3.0 to be included in Jakarta EE9.
Thanks,
Emily

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 9:43 AM Tibor Digana <tibordigana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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Thanks
Emily


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