Hi Paolo,

the first phase should be done, I just didn't have time to double check
everything, yet, due to my job related workload. I plan to do that till the
end of the month. Then there will be a proposal about the phase 2.

Thank you very much for reminding me.

Best regards,
Tibor

Dňa št 18. 9. 2025, 8:51 Paolo Bizzarri <[email protected]> napísal(a):

> Hi Tibor,
>
> I am not sure which is the status for this much appreciated proposal.
>
> I can see that we had commits in drools and kogito runtimes about
> supporting java 21, so maybe this has been already completed?
>
> Thanks again for all the effort.
>
> Regards
>
> Paolo
>
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> On Mon, Aug 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM Tibor Zimányi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > thanks everyone for feedback! I see there are no objections to this and
> > someone mentioned to me (I think Jason and Tiago) that if there are no
> > objections, we don't need a vote. So if there will be no objections to
> > continue with this without a vote until the end of today, I will let
> people
> > that are already involved in this task to start contributing by opening
> PRs
> > in the relevant repositories.
> >
> > For the PR checks, I will send a more detailed proposal for the Phase 2.
> I
> > think Phase 1 can happen without the need to change CI anyhow, as we want
> > to target also Java 17 compatibility. I agree, it would be good to have
> PR
> > checks for both Java 17 and 21 in the future. It will be part of the
> Phase
> > 2 proposal.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tibor
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM Jason Porter <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I agree to this as well. I know it isn't ideal, but as Tiago stated
> > > running PRs on both versions of Java is the only way to be sure we
> don't
> > > break one of the versions.
> > >
> > > On 2025/07/31 19:59:12 Tiago Bento wrote:
> > > > I definitely agree that we need to move the code base to Java 21.
> > > > Thanks Tibor for the proposal. Because we want to keep Java 17 being
> > > > supported, I think our only guarantee would be to have builds running
> > > > in both versions for PR checks. Otherwise we risk breaking one of the
> > > > versions and only finding out when it's already too late.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM Deepak Joseph <
> > [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > +1 I agree with this proposal to make code buildable and runnable
> > with
> > > Java
> > > > > 21
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Deepak Joseph
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM Yeser Amer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Thank you for the clarification, +1 (and I'm available to help in
> > > this
> > > > > > effort)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 2025/07/31 07:52:36 Tibor Zimányi wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > thanks for the feedback. It is basically as Francisco wrote. We
> > > have
> > > > > > Maven
> > > > > > > properties configured with 17, but there was no coordinated
> > effort
> > > yet to
> > > > > > > find out if everything works also on 21. This proposal is about
> > > it. There
> > > > > > > may be multiple things not working with 21, as e.g. mentioned
> in
> > > GWT, or
> > > > > > > there may be some enforcer rules around jdks etc. This effort
> > > should make
> > > > > > > sure everything is buildable and runnable on both Java 21 and
> > Java
> > > 17.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > For the PR checks, I think we can have a broader discussion if
> we
> > > agree
> > > > > > on
> > > > > > > this one and when we get to the point of starting the Phase 2.
> I
> > > am not
> > > > > > > against having a Java 17 PR check, it may be useful. It just
> > needs
> > > to be
> > > > > > > scoped properly (e.g. I expect not all PR checks are needed as
> > > Java 17
> > > > > > ones
> > > > > > > etc.).
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hope that clarifies.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Best regards,
> > > > > > > Tibor
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM Yeser Amer <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Dmitrii,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > At that moment, I experimented with GWT 2.10. Indeed it could
> > be
> > > worth
> > > > > > > > trying again with 2.12, thank you for pointing that.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On 2025/07/30 17:40:46 Dmitrii Tikhomirov wrote:
> > > > > > > > > This is strange, because at present GWT’s minimum Java
> > version
> > > is 11,
> > > > > > > > and the supported source level is 17. As far as I understand,
> > it
> > > should
> > > > > > > > work with version 21 as well
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/releases/tag/2.12.0
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > On Jul 30, 2025, at 7:59 AM, Yeser Amer <
> [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Right, it makes sense.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > A point to share is that we have all GWT modules with
> that
> > > property
> > > > > > > > set to JDK 8, because I failed to compile our GWT sources
> with
> > > any JDK
> > > > > > 8+,
> > > > > > > > when I tried some months ago.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > On 2025/07/30 14:49:05 Francisco Javier Tirado Sarti
> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >> I was going to say that, as far as I know, all modules
> > > should be
> > > > > > set
> > > > > > > > to 17
> > > > > > > > > >> now. Anyway, the task is to verify that assumption is
> > true.
> > > > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > > > >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM Yeser Amer <
> > > [email protected]>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > > > >>> Tibor,
> > > > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > > > >>> Thank you for your initiative, can you please clarify:
> > > > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > > > >>>> Phase 1:
> > > > > > > > > >>>> - Setting the release property:
> > > > > > > > > >>>> <maven.compiler.release>17</maven.compiler.release>.
> > > > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > > > >>> That means that we currently have some modules with JDK
> > > version
> > > > > > < 17,
> > > > > > > > > >>> right?
> > > > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > > > >>>> Phase 2:
> > > > > > > > > >>>> - Update the KIE CI to use Java 21 by default. This
> > means:
> > > > > > > > > >>>>    - Making sure PR checks run with Java 21.
> > > > > > > > > >>>>    - Making sure the release builds run with Java 21.
> > > > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > > > >>> If I understood correctly, we have to support both JDK
> 17
> > > and
> > > > > > JDK 21
> > > > > > > > for a
> > > > > > > > > >>> while. Should we expect to have 2 subsets of PR Checks,
> > > one that
> > > > > > runs
> > > > > > > > > >>> against JDK 17 and one that compiles against JDK 21
> > > (optaplanner
> > > > > > is
> > > > > > > > > >>> correctly doing that against JDK 17 and 20)?
> > > > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > > > >>> Thanks
> > > > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > > > >>> Yeser
> > > > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > > > >>> On 2025/07/30 11:54:23 Tibor Zimányi wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >>>> Hi everyone,
> > > > > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > > > > >>>> as Java 21 is the latest Java LTS available, already
> for
> > > some
> > > > > > time,
> > > > > > > > I
> > > > > > > > > >>> would
> > > > > > > > > >>>> like to propose that the code should be buildable and
> > > runnable
> > > > > > with
> > > > > > > > Java
> > > > > > > > > >>>> 21, while still retaining compatibility with Java 17.
> > > > > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > > > > >>>> The work should be split into two phases like this:
> > > > > > > > > >>>> Phase 1:
> > > > > > > > > >>>> - Setting the release property:
> > > > > > > > > >>>> <maven.compiler.release>17</maven.compiler.release>.
> > > > > > > > > >>>>    - This should make sure the code works with Java
> 17.
> > > > > > > > > >>>>    - This should make sure that the existing CI still
> > > works the
> > > > > > > > same way
> > > > > > > > > >>>> and is able to build releases etc., because even if we
> > > have
> > > > > > Java 17
> > > > > > > > as a
> > > > > > > > > >>>> build environment, with the setting, it should work.
> > > > > > > > > >>>> - Fixing the problems that occur while trying to build
> > the
> > > > > > > > repositories
> > > > > > > > > >>>> with Java 21 and are caused by Java 21.
> > > > > > > > > >>>> - Fixing the problems that occur while running tests
> > with
> > > Java
> > > > > > 21
> > > > > > > > and are
> > > > > > > > > >>>> caused by Java 21.
> > > > > > > > > >>>> - Updating the images we publish and need JDK to
> contain
> > > JDK 21
> > > > > > > > instead
> > > > > > > > > >>> of
> > > > > > > > > >>>> 17.
> > > > > > > > > >>>> - Target of the work are all Apache KIE repositories,
> > > mainly:
> > > > > > > > > >>>> incubator-kie-drools, incubator-kie-optaplanner,
> > > > > > > > > >>>> incubator-kie-kogito-runtimes,
> > incubator-kie-kogito-apps,
> > > > > > > > > >>>> incubator-kie-kogito-examples, incubator-kie-tools.
> > > > > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > > > > >>>> Phase 2:
> > > > > > > > > >>>> - Update the KIE CI to use Java 21 by default. This
> > means:
> > > > > > > > > >>>>    - Making sure PR checks run with Java 21.
> > > > > > > > > >>>>    - Making sure the release builds run with Java 21.
> > > > > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > > > > >>>> What do you think, please? I plan to open a vote on
> > Monday
> > > > > > based on
> > > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > > > >>>> feedback of this discussion. Finding people to do this
> > > work is
> > > > > > > > already
> > > > > > > > > >>>> done, at least for Phase 1.
> > > > > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > > > > >>>> Best regards,
> > > > > > > > > >>>> Tibor
> > > > > > > > > >>>>
> > > > > > > > > >>>
> > > > > > > > > >>>
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