A weekly Jakarta EE newsletter covering the author's upcoming appearance at JavaZone in Lillestrøm, plus progress updates on specifications targeting Jakarta EE 12: Jakarta CDI 5.0 is in release review, Jakarta JSON Binding 3.1 has an M1 with M2 in progress, Jakarta JSON Processing 2.2 is planning an M1, and Jakarta RESTful Web Services 5.0 awaits committer approvals on a pull request before its M1. It also highlights an article by Ed Burns, Jakarta EE 11 release lead, on using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java to build an AI agent harness with Jakarta EE.
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What is the status of Jakarta CDI 5.0 and other specifications targeting Jakarta EE 12?
Jakarta CDI 5.0 is currently up for release review. Jakarta JSON Binding 3.1 has already released an M1 with an M2 in progress, Jakarta JSON Processing 2.2 is planning an M1 shortly, and Jakarta RESTful Web Services 5.0 is waiting on three required committer +1s to merge pull request #1340 before producing its own M1. daily.dev helps Java teams track Jakarta EE 12 milestones as specs move toward release.
How can I use the GitHub Copilot SDK with Jakarta EE for building AI agents in Java?
Ed Burns, the release lead of Jakarta EE 11, published a writeup demonstrating how to build an AI agent harness in Java by combining the GitHub Copilot SDK with Jakarta EE 11 infrastructure, showing that established enterprise Java technology can support AI agent capabilities in enterprise applications. Java developers exploring AI agent tooling can follow this kind of integration work on daily.dev.