Release for Jakarta EE 12
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 purpose of this release is to introduce annotations for running workloads on virtual threads, such as @RunOnVirtualThread, along with other annotations required by the Jakarta EE 12 platform.
Java SE 11 or higher
The Specification Committee Ballot concluded successfully on 2025-05-05 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 | 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