It sounds good. Thanks ! Regards JB
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 6:35 PM Robert Varga <n...@hq.sk> wrote: > > On 27/09/2023 08.30, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote: > > Hi > > > > It makes sense to me (it’s something that I wanted to explore). > > So definitely worth to investigate. > > Cool. I think we can tuck this under > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-7765, if you are okay with that. > > Regards, > Robert > > > > > 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/ . > >> > >
