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

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxx>]

The minutes for the September 2nd Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our call on September 19th.

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - September 2nd, 2026

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu - Takahiro Nagao

Emily Jiang - IBM - Tom Watson

Dmitry Kornilov - Oracle, Robert Patrick

Andrew Pielage (chair) - Payara

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

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Arjan Tijms - Omnifish OU - Elected Participant Member Representative 

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 August 19th, 2026 meeting as drafted - Approved

Agenda:

• Jakarta EE 12 Update [Jared Anderson]
• Dashboard
• Platform Minutes
• CDI 5.0 release ballot up for view
• Authorization potentially moving into Web Profile in the upcoming milestone
• Steering committee pushing for a more accurate release date for Web Profile and Platform
• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of specifications progressing through the JESP specification version lifecycle
• Check on Progress review for Jakarta Config
• Ondrej is aware of the need for a progress and is looking to submit one after the summer holidays: https://www.eclipse.org/lists/config-dev/msg00275.html 
• Check on progress of Termination Review for Jakarta RPC
• Carry over from previous call: check up on termination review 
• New CCR come in for EE 11, complaining about failures on Java 25 (in Core Profile)
• There is some confusion of whether it is required to run the Core Profile TCK for Web Profile or Platform certification 
• The Platform specification doesn’t appear to mention it: https://jakarta.ee/specifications/platform/11/jakarta-platform-spec-11.0#a3252
• Is this a loophole/omission?
• We should look to clarify this for EE 12
• Emily to raise an issue on the Platform-TCK project to address this
• Do we need a CCR review checklist? 
• This would detail which TCKs need to be run, and how many tests are expected in each TCK.
• The number of the tests changes over time due to challenges or other updates, or other options (e.g. optional tests)
• Maintaining this manually can be problematic and time consuming
• Old published TCK results for Payara appear to be missing: https://github.com/jakartaee/platform/issues/1092#issuecomment-5477915738
• The URL of the results has changed - Andrew to poke someone
• PR template for Specifications needs updating to not mention IP log: https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/927 
• It already isn’t mentioned on our file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakartaee/specification-committee/refs/heads/master/spec_review_checklist.md 
• EFSL version: the latest version is 2.0 [Emily]
• Check for any updates or pushback from Emily’s email
• No pushback and checklist updated - we can mark this as done
• Issue #74 - TCK challenge automatic acceptance - [Andrew Pielage]
• Check in on progress of pull requests
• Issue #85 - Document Jenkins Maven Publication Jobs [Emily Jiang]
• Carry over from previous call: Added to checklist and PR template
• Check for any further actions and close if none
• No further actions - close
• Issue #89 - SHA512
• Discuss and assign owner
• Andrew to take
• Promoting TCKs is a collective effort [Ivar Grimstad]
• Carry over from previous call
• Probably worth doing a refresher course when there are more members present
• Can we also document them in our GitHub repo? https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-committee 
• Tools repository where the scripts exist: https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-tools/tree/master/promotion 
• Timeboxed demonstration when we have time and enough members present
• Todo (ivar): Add a link to the CI instance and job with a couple of bullet points explaining it
• Issue #44
• Review issue for updates, and close if not still relevant
• Closed
• Issue #43
• Review issue for updates, and close if not still relevant
• Closed
• Issue #55 - TCK Archive Format
• Check for any feedback
• On hold for now. Waiting for concrete ask from MicroProfile
• In absence of any feedback - we’re closing this. We can reopen if required
• Closed
• 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