On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:50 PM Jean-Louis Monteiro < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > Glad to see some possible users for Tomcat 10.0 :) The plan right now is that the EOL of the Tomcat branch for EE 9 will come quite soon after EE 10 gets supported (since EE 9 does not bring enough new functionality). Depending on the support plans you have for EE 9, this may not work out for you. Do you plan a quick move to EE 10 ? Rémy > -- > Jean-Louis Monteiro > http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro > http://www.tomitribe.com >
