Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] jetty versions - Another issue to feed on

[Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>]

Can your code not depend on an older version of jetty. Or is only one
version of jetty allowed in a given bundle stack?

Doug.

On 2015-09-16, 4:50 AM, "cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on
behalf of Max Rydahl Andersen"
<cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
manderse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>So jetty keeps on giving us some grief now and I think it is worth
>raising this
>since it has some nasty effects.
>
>If I had the option I would wish Jetty was reverted back to .9/.10 in
>Mars.1 until a more permanent/non-breaking option could be found,
>but I assume that is too late. Details below:
>
>The new issue is that to use webSockets from jetty one now need to
>include Apache Aries to make it work.
>
>in 9.2.9 and 9.2.10 this was not necessary, but 9.2.11-13 seem to
>require this.
>
>Now, I know simrel do not include jetty websockets, so it does not
>(currently) affect simrel directly;
>but it for sure affects its adopters.
>
>In short jetty definitely do not retain backwards compatibility between
>its .z releases (9.2.9, 9.2.10 and 9.2.11-13 all behaves differently)
>    - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=477385
>    - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=461919#c4
>
>There seem to be no way for us to use jetty inside eclipse and be sure
>the code will work on both Mars.0 and Mars.1.
>
>I know jetty is not directly participating in the simrel train (the
>above is probably part of why ;),
>but I think these latest events raises the issue that simrel should
>not just move up to the latest Jetty version.
>
>The reason we (jboss tools) did not spot this was that the change in
>Mars for jetty was not visible before latest August
>and that was right in the middle of vacation time.
>
>Comments/suggestions/explanations on this would be great!
>
>/max
>
>
>> I don't want to hijack the other thread, but it is related.
>>
>> JBoss Tools noticed that Jetty has some funky API changes going
>> on which unless you are super careful things breaks.
>>
>> See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=477385
>>
>> basically jetty 9.2.9, 9.2.10 and 9.2.13 are not compatible
>> with/between each other.
>>
>> Resulting in if platform ships some parts of jetty 9.2.13 and your
>> manifest says it works with 9.2.10 (jetty owns libraries says it does)
>> then things fall apart since you end up with a mix of 9.2.10 and
>> 9.2.13 in your install and that just don't work.
>>
>> Just wondering if others seen this and/or got any tips to better fix
>> this going forward (besides restricting ones version range to 9.2.10
>> and nothing else)
>>
>> /max
>> http://about.me/maxandersen
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>/max
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