Jakarta EE 8 Platform Compatibility Test Suite
Release Notes, September 2019


Note: This is version "September 2019" of the Jakarta EE 8 Platform CTS. The Release Notes file may be updated via the Jakarta EE Platform Specification Web Site: https://jakarta.ee/specifications/full-profile/8.0/ contains the most current information about the Jakarta EE 8 Platform CTS test suite, including any last minute changes. Always check that web-site for the most up-to-date information.

Jakarta EE 8 Platform CTS Requirements, Facts, and Figures

The Jakarta EE 8 Platform 8 CTS requires a minimum of 3.7 GB of free disk space:

The test suite bundle contains the following:

The tests for JAX-WS and SAAJ are removed from Jakarta EE 8 Platform CTS, as these technologies are part of Java SE Platform now. However, they are available as standalone TCKs and licensees are required to run these standalone TCKs if they provide their own implementations of these APIs that override the implementations in the Java SE platform.

Chapter 4, "Installation" in the Jakarta EE 8 Platform 8 CTS User's Guide, explains how to install the Jakarta EE 8 Platform Compatibility Test Suite on Linux, and Windows systems.


These are the stand alone TCKs, porting bundles, and JDK used to test the Jakarta EE 8 Platform 8 Compatible Implementation


Status Information

Exclude List

You can find the exclude list in the CTS bundle in <TS_HOME>/bin/ts.jtx. New versions of the exclude list are released and the TCK bundle will be updated. Be sure to check for updates at the Jakarta EE 8Platform Specification Web Site: https://jakarta.ee/specifications/full-profile/8.0/ or https://jakarta.ee/specifications/webl-profile/8.0/


Known Problems and Workarounds

Running the CTS Against Jakarta EE 8 Platform CI on Windows

When configuring and running the CTS against the Jakarta EE 8 Platform CI (Eclipse GlassFish 5.1) on Windows, please make sure to install all related software (Java SE, Jakarta EE 8 CI (e.g. Eclipse GlassFish 5.1), CTS, etc.) on the same drive (for example, C:). If you want to install on a drive other than C:, please be sure to change the following properties in <TS_HOME>/bin/ts.jte:

pathsep=;
ri.applicationRoot=c:
s1as.applicationRoot=c:

Attributions

The Jakarta EE 8 Platform CTS test suite includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/), the dom4j Project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dom4j/), and the JDOMTM Project (http://www.jdom.org/). The Apache Ant Contrib project is located at http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/.


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