Re-working the Jakarta spec features to be API/Impl separated will go a long way here. Move from “install these x bundles” to “I need Jakarta REST spec..”
DRAFT: https://github.com/apache/karaf/pull/1795 > On May 1, 2026, at 11:06 AM, Holger Friedrich via dev <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, >> Thoughts? > > Sounds good, lets go for Karaf 4.5! > > I have the feeling that getting the transition javax to jakarta completed is > the biggest challenge for now. A few of the dependencies are old and pull in > javax packages; a few like hibernate pull in both and might be wrapped to > drop the old ones. If we do not handle it and start porting apps on top of > Karaf, we end up with two different bundles in parallel (esp. if we have > namespace changes as for fasterxml.jackson). > > Regards, Holger > > >
