Indeed. It seems that bumping up Java is desirable or tolerable.
However, we cannot compromise with losing Jetty. On Tuesday, 13 April 2021 at 20:01:43 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > I should've been more explicit. The feature of having a self-contained app > server for pure gwt frontend development (for dev purposes). My > understanding is that it's a choice of bumping up Java version or losing > Jetty. > > On Tue., Apr. 13, 2021, 12:04 Thomas Broyer, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Which features are you talking about? Which would you lose by switching >> to using a *real* Jetty server alongside GWT CodeServer? >> >> Le mar. 13 avr. 2021 à 20:01, Richi Plana <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >>> As a user and non-contributor, I would vote for bumping up versions >>> (Java 7 to 8, Jetty to 9.4). The move to Java 8 is something I would have >>> to do if I had any Java 7 projects left. And Jetty has lots of used >>> features that I'm not hearing proposals for replacement for. >>> On 2021-04-11 9:15 a.m., Jens wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> we all know the issue: DevMode bundles Jetty and people are using it >>> even though we do not recommend it. Consequently people are complaining >>> that bundled Jetty is too old. So every once in a while we upgrade it. >>> >>> Currently with GWT 2.9.0 the situation is: >>> - GWT SDK is compiled to Java 7 byte code >>> - GWT Compiler requires ASM 7.x to support Java 11 >>> - DevMode bundles Jetty 9.2 which uses ASM 5.x >>> - gwt-dev.jar can only bundle a single Jetty, since we do not relocate >>> it. However there is already a question asking for Jakarta Servlet support, >>> e.g. Jetty 11 / Tomcat 10. >>> >>> Currently the ASM version misalignment between Jetty 9.2 and GWT >>> compiler causes classpath issues. This could be fixed by upgrading to Jetty >>> 9.4 and consequently compiling GWT SDK to Java 8 byte code as that is a >>> requirement for Jetty 9.4. >>> >>> However given the new Jakarta namespace and first questions about >>> supporting it, I am wondering if it wouldn't be wiser to remove embedded >>> Jetty from DevMode now, invest some work to make GWT-RPC and RequestFactory >>> useable with old javax.servlet and new jakarta.servlet namespaces and >>> finally cut a 2.10 or 3.0 release given the removal of embedded Jetty. >>> >>> Personally I would strongly vote for removal because GWT nowadays is in >>> maintenance mode with only very few changes here and there to support J2CL >>> better. Even reviews from contributors are rare these days I guess. Every >>> action we take nowadays should take maintenance effort into account and a >>> low maintenance effort is obviously preferred. If we upgrade Jetty to 9.4 >>> we still have that Jakarta issue coming up more often in the future for >>> sure. >>> >>> Generally this would be a decision made by GWT steering group but I have >>> no idea if this group still exists. 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