Hey All,
there is an issue with our eclipse plugins, more specifically with their
dependencies on the eclipse platform. Eclipse has recently switched to
Java 21 as their minimum supported Java version, which makes it
currently impossible to update to the latest eclipse platform [1] as
axis minimum supported Java version currently is 17. My first instinct
was that we then should also raise our minimum required Java version
[2], after all with the "new" Java release cycle staying on the
second-to-latest-LTS seems to become the norm for many libraries. After
giving it some more thought though, I think it is unreasonable to take
this step solely because of the eclipse plugins, given that raising the
minimum supported Java version may very much cause problems for users,
while our eclipse plugins are currently broken anyways (AFAIK). There
was a notice in the last release notes [3] that this is the case and
that we're looking for maintainers in this area, as far as I know nobody
came forward. Considering all of that I think that rather than raising
our minimum supported Java version we should discontinue support for the
eclipse plugins, seeing that they aren't maintained and there does not
seem to be any interest in them in the first place. I would be in favor
of removing the code from the source tree altogether, however I'm also
open to simply excluding them from the build by default (on Java
versions < 21).
I'm looking forward to your opinions and ideas in this matter. Given
that this has a significant effect on (potential) users I of course
don't want to make this decision on my own.
Best,
Christian
[1] https://github.com/apache/axis-axis2-java-core/pull/1149
https://github.com/apache/axis-axis2-java-core/pull/1146
https://github.com/apache/axis-axis2-java-core/pull/1144
https://github.com/apache/axis-axis2-java-core/pull/1142
[2] https://github.com/apache/axis-axis2-java-core/pull/1158
[3] https://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/release-notes/2.0.0.html
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