Hello Cocooners! Are there still some people using cocoon in a production application? We still use it in our standard product and now have the challenge to migrate to java 1.8 and spring framework 4.2.
While this gives us a few issues to solve in terms of migrating code relying on spring 3, we now face the challenge that we have to touch cocoon again. As cocoon 2.2 heavily relies on spring, I wondered if anyone of you guys has also ready tried to upgrade cocoon 2.2 to spring 4.2 (and implicitly also to java 1.8 - also with JDK 1.8 bytecode compatibility turned on). While the trunk of cocoon (2.2) still uses officially spring 2.5.5 it actually runs without problems also with latest 3.2.x of spring. But never tried with spring 4.x so far and according to our first tries with our product I assume there could be some more (heavy) issues, because minimum requirements to list of supported libraries has changed quite a bit. https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/wiki/Migrating-from-earlier-versions-of-the-spring-framework As an example the Cocoon Spring Configurator needed some small changes, as it was not compiling against Spring 4.2. Other projects I have not tried so far. Is there an interest in the community to make this changes in the trunk? Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Best regards, Gabriel Gruber Workflow EDV GmbH
