Jakarta EE 11 Overview: Virtual Threads, Records, And The Future Of Persistence
InfoQ, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Jakarta EE 11 is now available, delivering additional features and capabilities for improving software developer productivity and enabling further innovation. So you may be asking, "What's new in this version?" and "What comes next?" This article will address these questions.
Jakarta EE 11 introduces a new specification, Jakarta Data, with updates to 16 specifications and a fresh, updated Technology Compatibility Kit.
The release of Jakarta EE 11 was delayed to focus on modernizing the Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) for improved compatibility testing and lowering the barrier for adding more tests as the Jakarta EE ecosystem grows and evolves.
Jakarta EE 11 now requires Java 17 as a minimum version and support for Java 21, bringing support for new features such as Java records and virtual threads.
Jakarta EE 12 will feature advancing capabilities in data management.
The Jakarta Persistence, Jakarta Validation and Jakarta Expression Language specifications include support for Java records.
The Jakarta Concurrency specification supports the use of Virtual Threads via a modification to a single attribute when using Java 21.