Thanks for the reply. It gave me enough hope to do some more troubleshooting on my end, and it turned out to be, a typical case of EEBKAC (Error Exists Between Keyboard and Chair). My first installation attempt used OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.15+10-Ubuntu-0ubuntu0.20.04.1), which was the latest LTS version available, when I installed the server. I later changed to OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_312-8u312-b07-0ubuntu1~20.04-b07), but it appears, that some of the hacks, I had done to try to get things working on JDK 11 was causing the problems on JDK 8. After setting it to use JDK 8 and removing my previous hacks for JDK 11, it ended up working fine. Now, my only problem is, that I am running on JDK 8 for which "Premier Support" or "full support" ran out a few months ago (March 2022). I can live with that in my setup, but suspect, that this could be a deal-breaker for others. I would recommend, that Archiva was updated to support a newer and supported Java version, either Java 11 or preferably Java 17, which are newer LTS releases.
Best Regards, Simon Kepp. -----Original Message----- From: Bram Van Dam <bram.van...@intix.eu> Sent: Saturday, 7 May 2022 13.13 To: users@archiva.apache.org Subject: Re: JAXB and Java version issues with Archiva? > * The documented JDK version supported by Archiva is no longer > fully supported by Oracle, as it is simply too old Which exact JDK versions did you try? I have a version running on RHEL with 1.8.0_322 without any issues. I also just checked out the source and successfully built it on JDK 11.0.15 (Temurin) and on 17.0.3+7 without any significant issues. So I'm guessing this won't be too hard to fix. > * If Apache Archiva is dead or dying, what is the recommended Maven > repository manager today? It has been pretty quiet on the mailing list for a while, and there haven't been any significant releases in recent times. The team did release a version withe Log4J security fixes, and there are a couple of recent commits on master, so it seems like things aren't entirely dead in the water. Aside from the user interface, Archiva holds up pretty well, so it would be a shame to see it go. - Bram
