Hello No problem - I try to monitor Aries emails. Indeed - with Pax projects we try to keep JDK8 compatibility. This is more and more problematic, as even some newer Maven plugins are JDK11+...
kind regards Grzegorz Grzybek śr., 12 lut 2025 o 19:12 Dominik Przybysz <alien11...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > Thank you Grzegorz for such quick reaction. > Your fix works. > > I think that since java 8 is still used and supported by many libraries > then Aries should also stay with support for Java 8. That's why I am > blocking certain versions in dependabot configuration and also pax-web 9.x > is blocked there > https://github.com/apache/aries/blob/trunk/.github/dependabot.yaml > > śr., 12 lut 2025 o 07:55 Grzegorz Grzybek <gr.grzy...@gmail.com> > napisał(a): > > > Hello > > > > Let me clarify few things about Pax Web. > > > > Pax Web 8 is almost a complete rewrite of the code and the single reason > > was ability to register a servlet to multiple "contexts" (requirement > from > > OSGi CMPN Whiteboard specification). Starting from this single issue, I > > spent almost 3 years rewriting all aspects of Pax Web. > > > > Pax Web 9 is THE SAME as Pax Web 8 except two things: > > - it's JDK11+ > > - it's using Jetty 10 instead of Jetty 9 > > > > (Pax Web 8 will keep JDK8+ requirement). > > > > pax-web-extender-war in the version 8.x depends on tomcat so it seems to > be > > > better to switch to pax-web-tomcat-bundle to not bring jetty and > tomcat > > > deps. Unfortunately, it does not work because tomcat stucks in starting > > > servlet container. You can see it in > > > https://github.com/apache/aries/pull/453 > > > > > > I'll have a look at https://github.com/apache/aries/pull/453 and check > > what's the problem there. > > > > But mind one thing - pax-web-extender (there are two extenders - > whiteboard > > and war) - does NOT rely on Tomcat _runtime_. It does depend (you can see > > it in Karaf feature definitions, at Maven level relevant > org.apache.tomcat > > dependencies are with scope=provided) only on > > scanning/bcel/util/web.xml-parsing bits of Tomcat: > > > > pax-web-tomcat-common bundle is Pax Web bundle that exports Tomcat > packages > > responsible for parsing web.xml and fragments and used for code scanning > > (so ASM is not a requirement) and is used whether you use > > pax-web-http-tomcat, pax-web-http-jetty or pax-web-http-undertow. > > > > I'll try to fix aries/aries#453 this week. > > > > regards > > Grzegorz Grzybek > > > > wt., 11 lut 2025 o 21:09 Dominik Przybysz <alien11...@apache.org> > > napisał(a): > > > > > Hi team, > > > dependabot made a PR to update pax-web in jndi to version 9.x in > > > https://github.com/apache/aries/pull/356 > > > It didn't pass the tests because of 8 major versions bump and some > other > > > deps needs to be added. > > > > > > Pax web 9.x seems not to support java 8 in runtime so I skipped it in > > > https://github.com/apache/aries/pull/450 and the highest available > > version > > > to update is 8.x > > > > > > In https://github.com/apache/aries/pull/452 I was able to bump many of > > the > > > JNDI dependencies including pax-web but only to the highest 6.x > version. > > > > > > Version 7.x of pax-web wasn't able to start and I tried 8.x . > > > pax-web-extender-war in the version 8.x depends on tomcat so it seems > to > > be > > > better to switch to pax-web-tomcat-bundle to not bring jetty and > tomcat > > > deps. Unfortunately, it does not work because tomcat stucks in starting > > > servlet container. You can see it in > > > https://github.com/apache/aries/pull/453 > > > > > > Question: Do you know why in pax-exam tests tomcat is not able to start > > and > > > how to fix it? > > > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > Dominik Przybysz > > > > > > > > -- > Pozdrawiam / Regards, > Dominik Przybysz >
