Re: [jakartaee-tck-dev] Your feedback please: Pulling together TCK Relea

[Scott Marlow <smarlow@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ed, Alwin, all committers, all community,


On 11/19/20 11:59 AM, Alwin Joseph wrote:
> Hi Ed,
>
> Thanks for starting the discussion on the next release of the platform 
> TCK. I believe a formal Jakartae EE 9.1.0 plan will come up later on.

The initial document is at 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yFfD0ezjr1QFM3onGK76E3RhItN5FFEfhz12VA5wGYQ/edit?pli=1# 
as Kevin Sutter mentioned, the official EE 9.1 release plan will come 
later.

Everyone should be able to comment in the doc (you do need to sign into 
a google account first).

> Let me add my rough idea on what we would need to achieve for JDK11 
> support in next release of platform TCK.
>
> 1. Platform TCK build: We would need to build the platform TCK bundle 
> using JDK11 (say jakarta-jakartaeetck-9.1.0.zip). We are trying the same 
> now and getting some expected issues. I will update my findings on this. 
> Scott reminded that we would need to target JDK8 bytecode generation to 
> use the same platform TCK bundle to run in Java SE8.
>
> 2. Platform TCK run in jdk11:  When we are done with (1) above we would 
> try out running the tests in JDK11. We would need glassfish bundle that 
> can start in jdk11 to achieve this fully.
>
> 3. Platform TCK run  in jdk8 : When we are done with (1) above we would 
> try out running the tests in JDK8. To run the  platform tck (built in 
> jdk11) in jdk8 we would need to target jdk8 bytecode generation while 
> building as we will be using the same platform TCK bundle to run tests 
> in both jdk8 & jdk11.
>
> Please feel free to comment/correct.

Thanks Alwin!

Scott