You are right - we can remove it imho from 8.x as we do not test with
it and the transformed samples might not even work, e.g. dependencies
are not migrated, etc.

+1 for providing a (bigger) example.

Gruß
Richard

Am Mittwoch, dem 04.05.2022 um 11:17 +0100 schrieb Jonathan Gallimore:
> I've picked up a task related to the examples:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TOMEE-3873. I specifically went
> for
> this, as I added the Eclipse Transformer to the build for a number of
> examples in the past, back when we were doing the transformation
> process on
> TomEE itself. The drawbacks here is that any tests in the examples
> run on
> the javax code, and we just "assume" that the transformed artifact
> works. I
> would suggest removing that for the master build, as it just takes
> build
> time, and the examples should be transformed from javax to jakarta at
> source (if they aren't already). On the TomEE 8 build, we could
> select a
> few examples (no need to do them all) and find a way to run the tests
> on
> both javax and jakarta versions of TomEE.
> 
> Additionally, it would likely be useful to add documentation to this.
> If we
> also wanted a bigger example application that specifically covers
> transformation, I could look at that too.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:58 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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