+1 Kind Regards, Chandan Khandelwal
On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 9:36 AM Ashish Vijaywargiya < [email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > -- > Kind Regards, > Ashish Vijaywargiya > Vice President of Operations > *HotWax Systems* > *Enterprise open source experts* > http://www.hotwaxsystems.com > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 5:28 PM Mridul Pathak <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'd like to propose upgrading OFBiz's mail library from javax.mail to its > > modern replacement, Jakarta Mail (Eclipse Angus Mail). > > > > > > *javax.mail 1.6.2* predates the Jakarta EE rename, and OFBiz's servlet > > layer has already made that jump (Tomcat 10.1 / jakarta.servlet, Java > 17) — > > mail is one of the pieces still lagging behind. The library's own > upstream > > has moved too: Sun/Oracle's JavaMail implementation is now maintained as > > Eclipse Angus Mail against the Jakarta Mail API spec. > > > > > > In practice, that's a straightforward swap: > *com.sun.mail:javax.mail:1.6.2* > > becomes *jakarta.mail:jakarta.mail-api + org.eclipse.angus:angus-mail*, > > with the affected imports renamed to match. It's a pure API-surface > change, > > with no behavioral difference. > > > > > > Planning to file a JIRA ticket shortly — let me know if anyone sees a > > reason to avoid this. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mridul Pathak > > >
