On Wed, Jul 22, 2020, 18:10 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > We currently have implementations for all of the Jakarta APIs that ship > with Tomcat and partial implementations for 5 additional Jakarta APIs that > are compile time only dependencies. > > I was checking those partial implementations earlier today when I noticed > the Jakarta Mail API needed updating to use generics. I started on that but > paused when it looked like a number of new (dummy) classes would be > required. > > Considering alternative options, I wondered about depending on the Jakarta > API JARs directly. This would be a return to the 5.5.x era approach > without hopefully, the issue that JARs could be difficult to obtain. > > I have this implemented locally. It removes about 1000 lines of .java > files (although just under 10% of them are actual code) and adds about 100 > lines of build file config and anither 50 of IDE configuration. > > With the Jakarta JARs being readily available in Maven Central I think the > primary issue that led to the current approach is no longer a concern. > > Thoughts on switching to using the JARs directly? I can provide a
+1 PR if that is helpful. > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
