Am 28.10.2019 um 14:13 schrieb Rémy Maucherat: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:46 PM Johan Compagner <jcompag...@servoy.com> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> >> >> On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 at 13:15, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> 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.* >>> >>> >> >> what does this rename really mean? >> >> import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession; >> import javax.websocket.Session; >> >> those are renamed? >> If that is yes that would mean pretty much everything will break? >> > > https://eclipse-foundation.blog/2019/05/03/jakarta-ee-java-trademarks/ > I thought everyone knew about this. We were supposed to have a session on > this rename at ApacheCon EU, but unfortunately it didn't happen. > > Rémy > This article mentions that javax.* package namespace is not allowed to change. The API needs to remain compatible. When javax.* is renamed to jakarta.* it should be sufficient to have a javax.* shim library that translates everything to use jakarta.*. Or is there any public information that Oracle prohibits that too?
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