The goal of this release is to provide standalone API jar fully independent on the particular implementation.
The JDK version required will be aligned with Jakarta EE 10.
The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2021-05-03 with the following results.
| Representative | Representative for: | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Kenji Kazumura | Fujitsu | +1 |
| Dan Bandera, Kevin Sutter | IBM | +1 |
| Ed Bratt, Dmitry Kornilov | Oracle | +1 |
| Andrew Pielage, Matt Gill | Payara | +1 |
| Scott Stark, Mark Little | Red Hat | +1 |
| David Blevins, Jean-Louis Monteiro | Tomitribe | +1 |
| Ivar Grimstad | EE4J PMC | +1 |
| Marcelo Ancelmo, Martijn Verburg | Participant Members | +1 |
| Werner Keil | Committer Members | +1 |
| Dr. Jun Qian | Enterprise Members | +1 |
| Total | 10 |
The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list