> On Mar 24, 2022, at 2:28 AM, Jean-Louis Monteiro <jlmonte...@tomitribe.com> > wrote: > > We can now divide and conquer. An issue has been created > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TOMEE-3862 > We are going to add as many small tasks as possible so people can pick and > contribute in parallel.
Thanks for that JIRA. I saw an easy one I could do and went a head and knocked it out :) - https://github.com/apache/tomee/commit/6e37ec02ca60fe955a3a909d761e09aa5a506978 That yanks 1 minute out of the build on my machine. -David > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 1:59 PM Jean-Louis Monteiro < > jlmonte...@tomitribe.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've been working for quite a long time on TomEE 9.x, and it's been more >> challenging and painful than I was expecting. I thought it would be good to >> give you some sort of status. >> >> I created a PR for the work. As a reminder, since Java EE moved to Eclipse >> to become Jakarta EE, we had a switch from javax.* namespace to jakarta.* >> namespace. This is an impacting change, since all applications and >> applications servers are built on top of it. >> >> In TomEE, we decided to do that change in TomEE. We had previously a >> bytecode change approach like an application could do. It worked and we >> were able to get certified. But it had a lot of limitations, so we had to >> do the migration in the code and fix all compatibility issues. >> >> Here is the PR https://github.com/apache/tomee/pull/814 >> It has 90+ commits and nearly 5000 files touched (added, removed, >> updated). I understand it's a lot and it makes it almost impossible to >> review. But I did not see much approaches in this scenario to create >> smaller PRs. >> >> I created a Jenkins build though available at >> https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Tomee/job/master-build-quick-9.x/ >> >> It makes it possible to track the progress. There have been steps forward >> and steps backward. >> >> All the code does not sit under TomEE, we use a bunch of third party >> projects and libraries. I have been able to contribute, publish jakarta >> compatible versions and get releases for some of them (Jakarta EE APIs Uber >> jar, Geronimo Connectors and Transaction Manager, Geronimo Config, Health, >> Metrics, OpenTracing, OpenAPI. OpenJPA, BVal, and OpenWebBeans will be >> released soon. >> >> The big parts is CXF, and ActiveMQ. I had to get them done in TomEE and >> update all group/artifact ids. It's under deps, alongside with SXC, DBCP, >> and others. >> >> In terms of removal, I tried to remove old stuff like SAAJ Axis 1 >> integration, JAX RPC, Management J2EE and a couple of other old things. >> >> A lot of other libraries got updated to their latest version when >> available in the new jakarta namespace. >> >> I'm starting to get all the build stable and many modules are passing now, >> including all CXF webservices, OpenEJB Core, and others. I can get a build >> and run TomEE. >> >> Goal is to get a green build asap so we can start working on TCK. >> The "quick" build is now green. Working on the full build. >> >> I'll soon be creating a branch for TomEE 8.x maintenance and merge the PR. >> I'm hoping we can then have small PRs or at least more people working in >> parallel. >> >> -- >> Jean-Louis Monteiro >> http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro >> http://www.tomitribe.com >>
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