Re: Status of Work on TomEE 11 - Help welcome!

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Richard, on CDI/OWB, what specifically could use some work? I <3 cdi,
wouldn't mind throwing something that way.

On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 4:49=E2=80=AFAM Richard Zowalla <[email protected]> w=
rote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I wanted to give another quick update on the current progress of the
> Jakarta EE 11 work on TomEE.
>
> Jakarta Data 1.0 has been integrated. Our implementation can be
> deactivated if you prefer to use the Jakarta Data implementation provided
> by Hibernate. That said, you can also use our implementation alongside
> Hibernate, so you have the flexibility to choose what works best for your
> setup. Feel free to try it (with a TomEE 11 snapshot) and report back, if
> you find issues ;-)
>
> Jakarta Security: The Security TCK is up as a PR:
> https://github.com/apache/tomee/pull/2579 - feedback is very welcome.
> Some of the tests are already passing, but as expected it still needs wor=
k
> since we hadn't started on it before. The actual Security implementation
> for EE 11 is still missing, but now that we have the TCK in place, we can
> start tackling that soon.
>
> REST (CXF): Markus did some work on the REST TCK and submitted a PR to
> CXF. This will likely require another CXF release to pick up those change=
s.
>
> CDI (OWB): OpenWebBeans is still a work in progress and needs some love o=
n
> the CDI 4.1 branch:
> https://github.com/apache/openwebbeans/commits/cdi-4.1/ - if someone
> wants to jump in, contributions are very welcome.
>
> Concurrency 3.1 is up as a PR with a passing TCK:
> https://github.com/apache/tomee/pull/2577 -  feedback is welcome here as
> well.
>
> JPA 3.2 (OpenJPA): There is an open PR that passes the JPA 3.2 TCK (with
> PostgreSQL) and implements the missing features in OpenJPA. However, the =
PR
> still needs some more love, in particular, the MariaDB/MySQL code paths
> need to be adjusted. See https://github.com/apache/openjpa/pull/142 -
> Help with fixing and/or reviewing would definitely be welcomed by the
> OpenJPA folks
>
> So far so good from my side.
>
> Richard



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