Alright, if we are removing Spring entirely for ActiveMQ 7 then we can
upgrade to Spring 7.x for ActiveMQ 6.4.

Spring 6.2.x is almost EOL and I have no doubt there will eventually be a
CVE that pops up so I think we need to go with Spring 7.0 at some point in
ActiveMQ 6.x

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 5:22 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>
wrote:

> My proposal was to remove spring for ActiveMQ 7. I have a prototype for
> that.
>
> So I would prefer to stay with 6 series with Spring.
>
> Just me €0.01
>
> Regards
> JB
>
> Le ven. 20 mars 2026 à 21:47, Christopher Shannon <
> [email protected]> a écrit :
>
> > Wasn't the plan to get rid of Spring entirely for ActiveMQ 7.0 or at
> least
> > make it optional? Will that work be ready, I haven't looked to see what
> > needs to be done to finish decoupling other than the configuration
> piece. I
> > know we talked about a builder pattern or some other way to configure a
> > broker.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 4:27 PM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > If we couple that with JDK 25, ActiveMQ 7 makes sense.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > JB
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 8:24 PM Matt Pavlovich <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think Jetty 12 to 12.1 won’t be too complicated.
> > > >
> > > > I think we need to get the Jetty 12 upgrade merged (the blocker is
> web
> > > > console EL templating isn’t working yet) into 6.3.x.
> > > >
> > > > Might be good to go ahead and call it ActiveMQ 7 w/ Spring 7 and EE
> 11—
> > > > effectively mark ActiveMQ 6.x as the transition to more stable
> > > > JDK/Spring/EE alignment going forward.
> > > >
> > > > -Matt
> > > >
> > > > > On Mar 20, 2026, at 11:17 AM, Christopher Shannon <
> > > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > One thing to be aware of is that Spring 7.x requires EE 11. So it
> > would
> > > > > require both upgrading to Jetty 12.1.x (not Jetty 12.0.x) as well
> as
> > > > > Jakarta EE 11 and I think we might only be using EE 9 right now.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm not sure what issues might arise from bumping to EE 11, maybe
> > none
> > > as
> > > > > long as we don't use the new features.
> > > > >
> > > > > Spring 6.2.x is EOL in 3 months so it probably makes sense but
> > > something
> > > > to
> > > > > be aware of.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 10:34 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <
> > [email protected]
> > > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Hi folks,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> For the coming ActiveMQ 6.4.0 release, I propose to upgrade to
> > Spring
> > > > 7.x.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Spring 7.x is still compatible with JDK 17 but also has better
> > support
> > > > for
> > > > >> JDK 25.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> The reason why I'm proposing ActiveMQ 6.4.x is because Spring 7.x
> > > would
> > > > >> require Jetty 12.x.
> > > > >> Matt started the Jetty 12.x update, so we have a dependency to
> this
> > > > work to
> > > > >> have a clean Spring 7.x upgrade.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I will chat with Matt if he needs help on the Jetty 12.x update.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Are you ok to plan Spring 7.x update for ActiveMQ 6.4.0 ?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Regards
> > > > >> JB
> > > > >>
> > > >
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