I am fine with making the transition to „main“, no objections. We should - although - update the build settings on Jenkins (+ Automated Dep Updates for 10.x) if we do so to avoid a lot of mails.
Gruß Richard > Am 18.11.2025 um 01:37 schrieb David Blevins <[email protected]>: > > Thanks for this update, Richard. Thanks also Markus for the work. > > What does everyone think about making this branch the main branch? > > People looking for stable branches can easily find them. People looking to > see activity in main can easily miss the branch. > > > -David > > >> On Nov 16, 2025, at 12:18 AM, Richard Zowalla <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Markus and myself started the work on EE11 on this branch: [1] >> >> What is currently done: >> >> 1.) Markus upgraded the EE API Shade to EE11. Notably, some APIs were >> dropped that we still need in TomEE, so work was done to add those APIs back >> into TomEE (JAXB, etc.). >> 2. ) We are currently using a custom CXF fork based on Reta’s work on >> CXF-8828 [2]. Similar to EE10, I forked his work branch and created an >> intermediate custom release until CXF provides something official. The >> forked code is available here: [3]. >> 3.) Although EE11 targets Java 17/21, the CXF team would like to require >> Java 21. I’ve commented on that, but it would be great if others could also >> voice their preference for Java 17 over Java 21 as the baseline. >> An alternative would be to adopt Java 21 as the baseline for TomEE 11: [4]. >> Currently, the baseline on the ee11 branch is set to Java 21 (as the >> intermediate CXF fork did require it). >> 4.) Build looks good so far. The tests, which are failing right now, are all >> related to the removal of the SecurityManager in Java 21. The build is here: >> [5] >> >> On our upstream dependencies: >> >> - Work has started on OpenJPA for JPA 3.2 on a separate branch / repo, so >> not out to see in the original repo. I think, that help would be welcome on >> their side. >> - CXF has also started working on EE11 (see above) >> - OWB also started for the CDI part. >> - MyFaces is already EE 11 ready (afaik) >> >> What needs to be done: >> >> - Next step on our side would be to start implementing the changes for the >> specs (security, concurrency, …) which are implemented in TomEE itself. >> - We need to discuss how we want to deal with Jakarta Data (new spec); would >> need to be implemented either as a separate project or in TomEE itself. >> - Look into MicroProfile 7+ upgrades ;-) >> >> More updates will follow as the work progresses. >> Feedback, testing, and comments are very welcome. >> >> Gruß >> Richard >> >> [1] https://github.com/apache/tomee/tree/ee11 >> [2] https://github.com/reta/cxf/tree/CXF-8828 >> [3] https://github.com/rzo1/cxf/tree/CXF-8828 >> [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-8828 >> [5] https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Tomee/job/tomee11-full/ >> >
