+1 - Ray
On Wed., Jul. 22, 2020, 5:29 p.m. Martin Grigorov, <mgrigo...@apache.org> wrote: > > > 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 >> >>