Hi devs,
I'd like to have an early decision on what (bigger) dependencies should
be upgraded in the next release cycle.
A) HTML 5. Already proposed by Jerome. This is something that has a
continuous aspect, since "switching to HTML5" can be something as simple
as writing a smaller DOCTYPE, or can go to rewriting the entire
templates and rendering engine. We'll start small and improve things as
we go.
B) Hibernate 4. Will require some code changes since we're using a few
deprecated APIs that have been removed in 4.0.
C) Struts 2. We could move away from Struts completely at some point,
but until we have the time to implement our own action mechanism, a good
step forward is upgrading to a newer version of Struts.
D) Velocity Tools 2. I'm not quite happy with how version 2.0 is
packaged, since it brings in a dependency on Struts 2, but 2.1 isn't
planned yet. Alternatively, we could package our own subset of
velotools, since we're only using the generic tools, not VelocityView or
VelocityStruts.
E) Servlets 3.0. Since we're using Java 1.6, we could also require a
servlet-3.0 capable container. This will give us more flexibility in
defining servlets and filters, since the 2.4 versions we're using now
requires a central web.xml file. The problem is that only the most
recent versions of the popular servlet containers are compatible: Jetty
8, Tomcat 7, Glassfish 3, WebSphere 8, WebLogic 12. Oracle Application
Server doesn't provide a version compatible with servlets 3.0, but this
server is discontinued anyway. This means that users on older Linux
server versions will have to install Tomcat 7 manually.
F) Jetty 8. This is required for Servlets 3.0, but it would be a good
upgrade on its own.
G) HSQLDB 2. Better for performance.
H) Lucene 3.5, Tika 1.0. Upgrading Lucene shouldn't be a problem, but an
early attempt at using Tika 1.0 didn't work, it would require some time
to debug it.
I). Sass, Less or something like that. Personally I'm against this,
since we're already providing support for most of their benefits by
including Velocity code in CSS files. Does anybody else consider that we
should include a CSS framework?
J) Joda Time 2 and Quartz 2, and maybe freshen up the plugins that use them.
WDYT?
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Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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