Hello Richard, [-1] for removing Microprofile from OOB TomEE 10.*
Indeed: 1. From a semantic versionning standpoint, it is not possible to introduce a breaking change, so the earliest possible release to do such major change would be TomEE 11 2. Competing applications servers (Payara, OpenLiberty, JBoss,...) seem to have OOTB MicroProfile support 3. MicroProfile is often quoted as "the incubator for potential new specifications [of Jakarta EE...]" (quoted from https://blog.sebastian-daschner.com/entries/microprofiles-role-jakarta-ee). This last point is the key reason why I disagree with removing MicroProfile from TomEE: enthousiatics developers willing to take advantage of those ahead-of-time features brought by MicroProfile will be less eager to use TomEE if MicroProfile isn't anymore part of it. They most likely they'll fall into other application servers' hands. That said, I welcome your initiative to cast such vote : your are playing your role as TomEE's PMC chairman, which is to inspire the future of this great community, with the democratic way to exchange on ideas. I will love seeying counter-arguments to my reply, and I'm sure that the more answers this proposal will get (whatever the final outcome will be), the healtiest TomEE community will be! Thanks, Alex Le lun. 14 avr. 2025 à 10:07, Richard Zowalla <r...@apache.org> a écrit : > > Hi all, > > Starting with TomEE 10.0.x, we've included MicroProfile 6.0 along with all > the necessary OpenTelemetry classes and libraries. > > From what I've seen, many libraries—such as JDBC drivers—automatically enable > OTEL features when the relevant libraries are present on the classpath, > regardless of any MicroProfile configuration settings. > > This puts us in a tricky position: we’re often forced to stick with older > library versions because upgrading from MP 6.0 to 6.1 tends to introduce > breaking changes. Moreover, MP 7 can only be supported once CXF provides a > compatible client, which is currently being targeted for Jakarta EE 11. > > Given this, I’d like to propose dropping the (de-activated) MicroProfile > support from the Web, Plus, and Plume distributions—meaning we would no > longer include the MP-related JARs by default. Instead, we could offer an > optional script-based approach (e.g., via a zip/tar.gz package) that users > can apply to add the MicroProfile flavor to Web/Plus/Plume as needed. > > Since this would be a breaking change, we could aim to roll it out starting > with version 10.1.x. > > WDYT? Any thoughts? > > Gruß > Richard
