Impressive 👍 On Tue, Jun 6, 2023, 00:58 Petri Tuomola <pe...@tuomola.org.invalid> wrote:
> Excellent work - well done! Very happy to see all these important upgrades > being implemented. > > Regards > Petri > > > On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, 03:50 Arnold Galovics, <arn...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Just wanted to notify everybody in advance that a bigger change is coming >> into Fineract. >> >> For a longer period Spring Boot 3 has been out as well as a newer >> EclipseLink from which we've been using a version that has been initially >> released in 2017. >> >> With some of the contributors we've started to separate out certain >> pieces of Fineract into project modules for easier maintainability, we >> naturally encountered a couple of issues. Unfortunately EclipseLink wasn't >> properly supporting multi-module projects which eventually led to the >> decision to finally do an upgrade. >> >> As always, when jumping major versions (to EclipseLink 4.0.0) there were >> issues. A lot of the dependencies we have were cross dependent on each >> other and a lot of other unwanted dependencies have to be upgraded too. >> This doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing but it definitely increased the >> initial scope of the work we took on. >> >> With that said, let me give you a really brief update on some of the >> major things happening: >> - Spring Boot 2 -> Spring Boot 3 >> - EclipseLink 2.7 -> 4.0 >> - javax -> jakarta >> - Groovy 3 -> Groovy 4 >> - and a few other plugins and dependencies >> >> And now comes the fun part. With the EclipseLink upgrade, the javax to >> jakarta namespace upgrade inevitably came as well. That's a breaking change >> unfortunately and cannot be avoided. Note that this would've been coming >> anyway with the Spring Boot upgrade as well. >> >> Now, this might cause some turbulence with your current Fineract >> deployment. >> >> If you're using Fineract with Spring Boot embedded Tomcat, you're good to >> go, the change should be smooth for you. >> If you're using Fineract as a WAR with a standalone Tomcat or other >> application server, you probably need to upgrade your application server to >> be compatible with the jakarta namespace; in case of Tomcat, you need to >> use 10.x+ version, for others please see their manuals. >> >> I know this has been a long mail but I hope you made it this far and gave >> you some valuable information on the upgrade. >> >> Best, >> Arnold >> >
