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Jakarta Pages 4.1 (under development)

Release for Jakarta EE 12

Jakarta Pages defines a template engine for web applications that supports mixing of textual content
(including HTML and XML) with custom tags, expression language, and embedded Java code, that gets compiled
into a Jakarta Servlet.

This release does not plan to add new features.
It aims to address known issues in the Jakarta Pages specification and to maintain alignment with the Jakarta Servlet and Expression Language specifications.

New features, enhancements or additions

  • Add, in cooperation with the Jakarta Expression Language 6.1 specification, a performance optimisation for scoped attributes.
  • Changes (currently none known) required to align with changes in the Jakarta Servlet 6.2 and/or Expression Language 6.1 specifications.

Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes

  • None

Minimum Java SE Version

Java SE 17 or higher - This will follow changes - if any - in Jakarta Servlet 6.2

Details

Compatible Implementations

  • Apache Tomcat 12 (TBC)

Ballots

Plan Review

The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2025-04-01 with the following results.

Representative Representative for: Vote
Kenji Kazumura Fujitsu +1
Emily Jiang, Tom Watson IBM +1
Ed Bratt, Dmitry Kornilov Oracle +1
Andrew Pielage, Petr Aubrecht Payara +1
David Blevins, Jean-Louis Monteiro Tomitribe +1
Ivar Grimstad EE4J PMC +1
Marcelo Ancelmo, Abraham Marin-Perez Participant Members no vote
Werner Keil Committer Members +1
Jun Qian Enterprise Members +1
Zhai Luchao Enterprise Members +1
Total 9

Non-binding Votes

Representative Representative for: Vote
Angelo Rubini Community +1
Total 1

The ballot was run on the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list