We’ve already got a log4j-jakarta-web module for the web change. Yes, I agree 
we need an equivalent for JPA, JMS, JavaMail, and the tag library.

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Matt Sicker

> On Jan 22, 2022, at 18:14, Tim Perry <tim.v...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Many libraries are producing one code line for the javax.* environment and
> another code line for the jakarta.* environment. This is because when
> Oracle gave the Eclipse Foundation the J2EE code they required name
> changes. This affects code using Servlet API, JPA, Bean Validation,et
> cetera.
> 
> Spring:
> spring 5 uses javax.* and spring 6 will support jakarta.*
> 
> Hibernate:
> Hibernate Validator 6.x will keep the javax.* packages while Hibernate
> Validator 7.x moved to the jakarta.* packages.
> https://in.relation.to/2021/01/06/hibernate-validator-700-62-final-released/
> 
> Tomcat:
> When first released, Tomcat 9 and Tomcat 10 were functionally identical,
> except Tomcat 10 supported jakarta.* and Tomcat 9 supported javax.*. They
> have slowly diverged as more features have been added to Tomcat 10. The
> difference isn't very big.
> 
> 
> For log4j, I suspect we'll need to release two versions of log4j-web and
> log4j-jpa: one for backwards compatibility with javax.* and another for
> Jakarta EE. We might need to do this for other libs as well.
> 
> Looking through the source, I only see "import javax.servlet" in:
> log4j-samples
> log4j-taglib
> log4j-web
> src/site/asciidoc
> 
> I see "import javax.persistence in:
> log4j-jpa
> log4j-perf
> 
> If I expand my search to "import javax", I see this many more places. I
> don't think all of these are affected by the Jakarta EE change. If I was at
> a unix box I could slice and dice the imports, but here are the packages
> that might be affected.
> log4j-1.2-api
> log4j-core
> log4j-flume-ng
> log4j-jdbc
> log4j-jms
> log4j-jmx-guil
> log4j-jpa
> log4j-kafka
> log4j-layout-jakcons-xml
> log4j-perf
> log4j-plugins
> log4j-samples
> log4j-smtp
> log4j-taglib
> log4j-web
> src/site/asciidoc
> 
> FWIW, I think I tabulated these on an old master branch.
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:26 AM Volkan Yazıcı <vol...@yazi.ci> wrote:
>> 
>> This Tomcat upgrade looks legit to me.
>> Nevertheless, I'd appreciate it if a Tomcat veteran could weigh in.
>> 
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>> Subject: Re: [apache/logging-log4j2] Bump tomcat-catalina from 8.5.20 to
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>> Pay attention!
>> tomcat 8 and 9 are pretty good compatible, but with version 10 comes huge
>> breaks (namespace javax -> jakarta)!
>> Therefore still tomcat 9 is in use by the most production environments and
>> not supported from the most API and frameworks.
>> 
>> https://tomcat.apache.org/migration-10.html
>> 
>> *There is a significant breaking change between Tomcat 9.0.x and Tomcat
>> 10.0.x. The Java package used by the specification APIs has changed from
>> javax... to jakarta.... It will be necessary to recompile web applications
>> against the new APIs.*
>> 
>> tomcat 8 and 9
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