> On Aug 26, 2019, at 6:47 AM, Jean-Louis Monteiro <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We currently don't have any Activation 1.2 spec jar (api/impl).
> We need it for Jakarta EE 8 certification so I'll start creating a Geronimo
> spec jar for it.

Ok, it's been a yo-yo day on the Jakarta EE 8 side of the fence as we're 
nailing down the final spec and dealing with this PR that is attempting to 
decipher to the world all potentially confusing gaps:

 - https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/pull/109

The short version of this is that several specifications that were in Java EE 6 
were removed from Java EE when those things were added to the JVM.  
Specifically:

 - Activation
 - JAXB
 - JAX-WS
 - Web Service Metadata (javax.jws)

These were all donated to Eclipse anyway and then famously deleted in Java 11.

The long story short, there is no official version from a Java EE 8 
specification.

For Activation, here's what we're dealing with:

 - Java 8: Activation 1.1
 - Java 9: Activation 1.2
 - Java 11: no activation

If we shipped an Activation 1.1 jar we would not be breaking Jakarta EE 8 
compliance.

As we don't need more scope, I recommend we do not delay TomEE 8 to ship an 
Activation 1.2 jar.


-David

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