Thank you so much Jean-Louis.. that clear's most of our queries for migration.
Concerning TomEE 9.x, there was a confusion with *Jakarta EE 9.x *instead of *Tomcat 9.x* and yes (*TomEE 9.x *includes *Tomcat 10.x) - *This information clears all the roadblocks for upgrading the majority of third-party components. Regards, Nikhil Somasani On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 3:12 PM Jean-Louis Monteiro < jlmonte...@tomitribe.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Please find some feedback in your email below. > > Best > -- > Jean-Louis Monteiro > http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro > http://www.tomitribe.com > > > On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 1:02 PM somasani nikhil <somasaninik...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Team, > > > > We are in the process of evaluating TomEE 8.x to TomEE 9.x / 10.x > upgrade.. > > I have a couple of queries before we can take any wise decision - > > > > 1) We are running the application on JDK 17 and compiled our code with > JDK8 > > - Does TomEE 9.x have any issues if the application code is compiled with > > JAVA 1.8.x ? > > > > Not as far as I am aware of. If you have an issue, it should be definitely > fixed. > > > > > > 2) We are having many references to *javax.** within the application and > > also using a bunch of third-party jars which are javax compatible, our > plan > > is to move to TomEE 9.x and check if it works without *javax.* *to* > > jakarta.** migration within our code ? > > > > > javax based applications will only deployed to TomEE up to 8.x > From 9.x onwards, you must migrate your application to jakarta namespace. > > > > Is Jakarta namespace migration mandatory if deploying the application on > > TomEE 9.x ? > > > > Yes > > > > The above would include migration of third-party jars as well based on > the > > core container for us (i.e., TomEE 8.x / 9.x). > > > > Correct. And that's usually harder to manage external libraries than it is > to convert your own source code to jakarta. > > > > > > 3) TomEE 9.x seems to be using Tomcat 9.x that works on javax namespace > so > > our next proposal is to see, If TomEE 9.x works with Tomcat 10.x or Is it > > tightly coupled with Tomcat 9.x only ? > > > > That's incorrect. > TomEE 9.x uses Tomcat 10.x > See https://github.com/apache/tomee/blob/tomee-9.x/pom.xml#L205 > > Tomcat 10.x is also jakarta compatible. > And yes TomEE is tightly coupled with Tomcat. This is because we want to be > Tomcat and we want to be very deeply and well integrated with it. > > > > > > Please advise. > > > > Thank you in advance! > > > > Regards, > > Nikhil Somasani > > >
