Excellent work - well done! Very happy to see all these important upgrades being implemented.
Regards Petri On Tue, 6 Jun 2023, 03:50 Arnold Galovics, <arn...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wanted to notify everybody in advance that a bigger change is coming > into Fineract. > > For a longer period Spring Boot 3 has been out as well as a newer > EclipseLink from which we've been using a version that has been initially > released in 2017. > > With some of the contributors we've started to separate out certain pieces > of Fineract into project modules for easier maintainability, we naturally > encountered a couple of issues. Unfortunately EclipseLink wasn't properly > supporting multi-module projects which eventually led to the decision to > finally do an upgrade. > > As always, when jumping major versions (to EclipseLink 4.0.0) there were > issues. A lot of the dependencies we have were cross dependent on each > other and a lot of other unwanted dependencies have to be upgraded too. > This doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing but it definitely increased the > initial scope of the work we took on. > > With that said, let me give you a really brief update on some of the major > things happening: > - Spring Boot 2 -> Spring Boot 3 > - EclipseLink 2.7 -> 4.0 > - javax -> jakarta > - Groovy 3 -> Groovy 4 > - and a few other plugins and dependencies > > And now comes the fun part. With the EclipseLink upgrade, the javax to > jakarta namespace upgrade inevitably came as well. That's a breaking change > unfortunately and cannot be avoided. Note that this would've been coming > anyway with the Spring Boot upgrade as well. > > Now, this might cause some turbulence with your current Fineract > deployment. > > If you're using Fineract with Spring Boot embedded Tomcat, you're good to > go, the change should be smooth for you. > If you're using Fineract as a WAR with a standalone Tomcat or other > application server, you probably need to upgrade your application server to > be compatible with the jakarta namespace; in case of Tomcat, you need to > use 10.x+ version, for others please see their manuals. > > I know this has been a long mail but I hope you made it this far and gave > you some valuable information on the upgrade. > > Best, > Arnold >
