Jakarta Annotations defines a collection of annotations representing common semantic concepts that enable a declarative style of programming that applies across a variety of Java technologies.
The goal of this release is to provide features requested by the community, such as:
The JDK version required will be aligned with Jakarta EE 10.
The release won’t contain any backwards incompatible changes.
The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2021-10-27 with the following results.
| Representative | Representative for: | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Kenji Kazumura | Fujitsu | +1 |
| Kevin Sutter, Tom Watson | 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 |
| Jun Qian | Enterprise Members | +1 |
| Zhai Luchao | Enterprise Members | no vote |
| Total | 10 |
The ballot was run in the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list