Jakarta Connectors 3.0 (under development)
Release for Jakarta EE 12
The Jakarta Connectors specification defines a standard architecture for Jakarta EE application components to connect to Enterprise Information Systems.
New features, enhancements or additions
- Support aborting a connection passing an executor for resource apdater function to destroy a connection.
- Connector Permissions feature
- Removal of references to the Security Manager in the connectors’ specification
- Wrong OSGi relation between JCA 1.7 and JTA 1.3 (JavaEE8, JakartaEE8)
- Some observed issues in 2.0 Specification Text
- Use fully qualified name jakarta.resource.cci.Record in specification to avoid collisions with java.lang.Record
- Consider refactoring updates to TCK
Community input is encouraged. Add your comments to issues in our issue tracker or join the Connectors Developer mailing list by following the instructions to subscribe on this page.
Removals, deprecations or backwards incompatible changes
- Removal of the
@SecurityPermission annotation and the security-permission element of a resource adapater deployment descriptor (ra.xml)
Minimum Java SE Version
Details
Compatible Implementations
Ballots
Plan Review
The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2025-04-24 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 |
no vote |
| Jun Qian |
Enterprise Members |
+1 |
| Zhai Luchao |
Enterprise Members |
+1 |
|
Total |
8 |
Non-binding Votes
| Representative |
Representative for: |
Vote |
| Angelo Rubini |
Community |
+1 |
| Michael Redlish |
Community |
+1 |
|
Total |
2 |
The ballot was run on the jakarta.ee-spec mailing list
