Hi!! personally, I like the idea to create a maintenance branch for TomEE 8.x and move master to 9.x.
Em qui., 28 de jan. de 2021 às 08:50, Jean-Louis Monteiro < [email protected]> escreveu: > Hi, > > We started the work on Jakarta EE 9 a few months ago. So far we are in good > shape by only applying the transformer in our code. But it looks like we > are facing some limitations. > > 1/ libraries we are using Tomcat, Mojorra, EclipseLink to name a few > already have Jakarta EE 9 compliant versions, which are more complete than > what we could do with the transformer. > > 2/ only creating zip files is restrictive. People can't use the > EJBContainer to unit test their code because we don't publish Maven > artifacts. TomEE embedded and other flavors of TomEE are not available > anymore. > > I'm wondering if at this moment, it would not be better to create a > maintenant branch for TomEE 8.x and move master to 9.x > > We could just do the dependency upgrades in there and any API changes due > to dependency upgrades. > > We would only keep working on TomEE 8 and cherry pick or backport > everything into TomEE 9.x so we have minimal changes between the 2 and we > don't spread our effort on multiple source trees. > > What do you think? > -- > Jean-Louis Monteiro > http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro > http://www.tomitribe.com > -- Daniel "soro" Cunha https://twitter.com/dvlc_
