Welcome to issue number three hundred and thirty-seventh of Hashtag Jakarta EE!

This week, we had our annual all hands gathering at Eclipse Foundation. Almost all the staff came together for a week of meetings, presentations, and team building in Estérel outside Montreal in Canada. Eclipse Foundation is a remote organisation, so this is the one time of the year when we get to meet and hang out with our colleagues. A week like this generates an enormous amount of energy for the entire Foundation making us even better prepared to server the open source community.

Jakarta EE 12 is pretty much on track. All the specifications that are part of Jakarta EE Core Profile have, or are about to produce milestone releases. A majority of the specifications in Web profile and Platform are also in a good state. In the Platform call this week discussions about configuration in Jakarta EE were revisited. It was discussed how MicroProfile Config potentially could be transferred to Jakarta EE, maybe turned into Jakarta Config, the necessity of splitting out the CDI dependency in order to avoid cyclic dependencies.

The GlassFish project filed Compatibility Certification Requests for Eclipse GlassFish 8.0.3 this week. It is interesting to notice that they filed a CCR for Jakarta EE Core Profile 11 in addition to Jakarta EE 11 Platform. Traditionally, GlassFish has only done this for Platform and Web Profile. This move may indicate that GlassFish will be in the position of being the ratifying implementation for Jakarta EE 12 Core Profile as well.