great! On Tue, Jun 6, 2023 at 3:39 AM Aikhomu Okoedion <luckyokoedion2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 >>> >>
