Hi all, We have discussed it a couple of times here and there. I'd like to open a dedicated thread for it.
EE 9 has been released and we have created a TomEE 9.x milestone to pass the TCK. The approach to do bytecode changes to support javax -> jakarta namespace changes proved to work but it's also been more complex than expected. We have a limited fork with limited features. We don't support nearly as much as we do in the 8.x branch. The goal was to decrease the maintenance cost for the community, but in reality I fear we are on the opposite path. I'd like to create a TomEE 8.x maintenance branch where we keep fixing stuff, upgrading libraries and do as many releases as possible and as long as we can to support javax namespace. I know it's the last compatible version so the topic is not when TomEE is going to be EOL. But if we do that, we could move master to TomEE 9 and start merging back all changes we did in the fork and finally create an EE 9 final release. EE 10 is around the corner, if we want to keep supporting EE and being certified, we need to avoid big jumps. What does the community think? -- Jean-Louis Monteiro http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro http://www.tomitribe.com
