Re: Wicket 10 based on jakarta.** APIs ?

[Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov]

On 2021/04/02 11:58:02, Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> Now since we have 9.3.0 released is it time to start thinking/working on
> Wicket 10 ?
> 
> Here are few ideas what to break :-)
> 
> 1) Move to Servlet 5.x, i.e. jakarta.servlet.**
> 2) Use @Inject + @Named instead of @SpringBean. If everything is covered
> by @Inject we may deprecate @SpringBean in 9.x
> 3) Depending on the release date we may even bump Java to 17 (it is going
> to be released this September and it is going to be LTS). I expect Wicket
> 10.0.0 to be released in 1-2 years from now, so by this time Java 17 should
> be mainstream! :-) I know that this is too brave. Most projects still use
> Java 8 for some reason.

One more idea: add proper support for JPMS (Java 9+ modules) in Wicket.
I still don't have any experience with this, so I am not sure how much work 
this is and what problems we may face with it.

> 
> Regards,
> Martin
>