On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 7:36 AM Adam Rauch <a...@labkey.com> wrote: > I've watched with great interest the recent list discussions surrounding > javax -> jakarta renaming and the draft release numbering plan. I'm > curious: Would the Tomcat team consider making a Tomcat release that > supports BOTH the javax and jakarta package names? >
If you've read the discussions, then you can see the current plan is to provide a deployment tool. So as you can see in the plan, we will have a 9.x release branch for javax.* supported "forever", and branches for jakarta.* support moving forward (including a tool for javax.* -> jakarta.* conversion). Now, there's no plan *right now* for a Tomcat which allows Frankenstein webapps. Personally, I think there will always be problems, and that it's a good time at some point to kill off the long deprecated and unsupported EE libraries that are still out there. If unintrusive classloader magic can happen easily, then why not I guess. Other Apache projects like TomEE and Meecrowave have the exact same "need", and most likely all will use the same code for that javax.* -> jakarta.* support. Rémy
