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

Hi all,

Here's a quick update on the progress:

    =E2=80=A2 Security: In the making (passing tests and TCK): =
https://github.com/apache/tomee/pull/2632. Markus did some tests with =
the branch in his environment and it looks quite good.
    =E2=80=A2 CXF: Needs to be released (4.1.1).
    =E2=80=A2 OWB: Released and integrated.

JPA seems to be the main thing missing right now. We can still ship =
without JPA 3.2 compliance in OpenJPA, but it would be nice to have - =
the OpenJPA folks will likely need some more time though.
In the meantime, once Security is integrated, we could start looking =
into platform TCK coverage a bit.

Gru=C3=9F
Richard

> Am 12.04.2026 um 11:48 schrieb Richard Zowalla <[email protected]>:
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> Hey everyone,
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> I wanted to give another quick update on the current progress of the =
Jakarta EE 11 work on TomEE.
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> 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 ;-)
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> 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 =
work 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.
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> 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 =
changes.
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> CDI (OWB): OpenWebBeans is still a work in progress and needs some =
love on the CDI 4.1 branch: =
https://github.com/apache/openwebbeans/commits/cdi-4.1/ - if someone =
wants to jump in, contributions are very welcome.
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> 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.
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> 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=20
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> So far so good from my side.
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> Richard