Hi It makes sense to me (it’s something that I wanted to explore). So definitely worth to investigate.
Regards JB Le dim. 24 sept. 2023 à 21:45, Robert Varga <n...@hq.sk> a écrit : > Hello everyone, > > with karaf-4.5.0 requiring Java 11 > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-7754), there are a number > of places where we can safely forget about how JVM < 9 did things, which > could lead to simplifications. > > One of these is Karaf's jre.properties, which (as I understand it) > define the set of packages which are to be advertised by the OSGi > framework (bundle 0, or somesuch, sorry, I am quite rusty on the spec). > > JEP 220 (https://openjdk.org/jeps/220), integrated in Java 9, exposes > the set of runtime-available packages as jrt:/packages/ (see > https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8066492). > > This would mean we can figure out the set of packages at runtime, would > make jre.properties (and our adding a new jre-XY entry every 6 months), > superfluous. > > There is one wrinkle, which is javax.transaction.xa, but, with my all of > no knowledge of J2EE, I think this a problem we need to deal with only > until we transition to the jakarta namespaces (karaf-5?)[0] > > Does this effort sound reasonable, or am I missing something? > > Thanks, > Robert > > [0] I think it might make sense to list Karaf, and perhaps Pax Web, > somewhere searchable, like > https://jakarta.ee/blogs/javax-jakartaee-namespace-ecosystem-progress/ . >
