Hello Jon, I'm also available to help : )
Em qui., 16 de abr. de 2020 às 22:56, Nishant Raut <[email protected]> escreveu: > Hi Jonathan, > > I will be happy to help by providing PR on namespace change if you can > share more details. > > Thanks and Regards, > Nishant > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 7:02 PM Jonathan Gallimore < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > You may be aware that as part of the Jakarta EE 9 release later this > year, > > the various APIs provided in TomEE will be shifting from javax namespaces > > to jakarta. > > > > I'm currently researching the use of the Eclipse Transformer project ( > > https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.transformer) to > translate > > both the TomEE server itself, and the source code for the examples. > > > > So far, I have a converted javaee-api.jar, and a Jakarta-ized version of > > TomEE that boots. There's *lots* that doesn't work at the present moment, > > but I'm expecting to have the moviefun example running fairly soon - that > > covers EJB, Servlets, JSPs, JPA. The REST version of the sample also > covers > > JAX-RS too. > > > > I'm aware that there's also a migration tool that Tomcat have been > working > > on too, and will be looking at. > > > > We ought to have some discussion about the approach here - in my mind > there > > are some high-level goals: > > > > * Try and maintain a single codebase for javax and jakarta. It's > > tempting to fork master and embark on a massive renaming exercise. That's > > complex as we'd need to do that for various dependencies as well, who may > > also have other branches and timelines. Having two codebases also means > > that any changes need to be applied twice, and with renamed packages, its > > unlikely the git merging or cherry-picking will work. > > > > * Be backwards compatible - One goal I had in my mined, is that if you > have > > an application that uses javax, you'd probably like to be able to run it > on > > a new Jakarta EE server. There are some options here - I quite like the > > idea of running the Transformer as a javaagent, so any applications > > deployed using the old namespaces are converted on the fly at the > bytecode > > level. > > > > * Tooling - I wonder what tooling we could potentially provide? One > thought > > I had was a Maven plugin that can transform a war/ear file for you as > part > > of a build. > > > > Anyway, just wanted to give a heads-up on the research. Any thoughts / > > discussions / questions are encouraged. > > > > Jon > > >
