Re: [jgit-dev] Updating jetty, java and moving from javax.servlet to jak

[Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 10:26 PM Ivan Frade <ifrade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

 Overall it sounds good. I am only worried about the javax to jakarta servlet change. I don't know the current plumbing well nor how complicated it is to move to the new API. Could we have something like a "pre-7.0" branch to get a first taste of these changes before hitting master?

The difference between servlet 4.0 and 5.0 (released is the change of the package name from javax.servlet to jakarta.servlet.

This was necessary since Oracle didn't allow the Jakarta project to use the javax namespace which is protected by a trademark.

servlet 6.0 (released May 31, 2022):   https://jakarta.ee/specifications/servlet/6.0

servlet 6.1 : https://jakarta.ee/specifications/servlet/6.1

release is in progress see https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/717

I propose we prepare these changes on the existing "next" branch.

-Matthias

 Thanks!

Ivan

 

On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:09 PM Matthias Sohn via jgit-dev <jgit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I think it's time to consider some major updates

• community support for jetty 9, 10 and 11 ended, hence we should update to jetty 12
  see https://github.com/eclipse-jgit/jgit/issues/41
• jetty 12 requires Java 17, meanwhile the current LTS is 21 hence I think it's time to bump the minimum Java version to 17
• I think it's also time to update from javax.servlet to jakarta.servlet 3 years after this change was done upstream when Eclipse Jakarta became the successor of Oracle's JEE
  see https://github.com/eclipse-jgit/jgit/issues/19 and
  https://jakarta.ee/blogs/javax-jakartaee-namespace-ecosystem-progress/
• we need to decide if we release these updates in 6.10 or if we better rename the next release to 7.0.

Please provide feedback on these proposed updates.

-Matthias

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