Hi all, A frequent topic of discussion at ApacheCon EU was Jakarta EE 9. For those of you who aren't familiar with Jakarta EE the key points are:
- Oracle have donated Java EE to Eclipse - Eclipse have released Jakarta EE 8 which is essentially identical to Java EE 8 - Oracle have refused to allow changes to the APIs in the javax namespace - The Jakarta EE community seem to be reaching consensus on releasing Jakarta EE 9 which will rename all the Java packages from javax.* to jakarta.* - Jakarta EE 9 will not contain any other API changes - It will be a requirement to maintain backwards comparability (maybe not 100% compatibility) with Jakarta EE 8 - Jakarta EE 9 will be released in the next ~11 months - Jakarta EE 10 will then follow which is where new features will be introduced This raises various questions for the Tomcat community including: 1. Do we implement Jakarta EE 9? Assuming yes to q1. 2. As Tomcat 10 or some other version? 3. How do we manage development (in a branch, as master, ...)? 4. How do we implement backwards compatability? Runtime, deploy time, compilation time? 5. At what point do we EOL Tomcat 7? (since Jakarta EE 9 is just a package renaming?) 6. Do we commit to supporting Tomcat 9 for an extended period? (to provide a version that supports java.* directly) I'm posting this to users@ as how Tomcat users want to use and adopt Jakarta EE 9 is likely to be the biggest driving factor in choosing answers to these questions. We don't have to have all of the answers right now. I think we do need answers for 1 & 3 so we can start. A few options and 'wait and see' is likely good enough for the rest for now. I have my own views on the answers but I have tried not to express them here so we can get as wide a discussion as possible. Thoughts? Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
