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- Ray
On Wed., Jul. 22, 2020, 5:29 p.m. Martin Grigorov,
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> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020, 18:10 Mark Thomas wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> We currently have implementations for all of the Jakarta APIs that ship
>> with Tomcat and partial implementations for 5 additional Jakarta APIs that
>> are compile time only dependencies.
>>
>> I was checking those partial implementations earlier today when I noticed
>> the Jakarta Mail API needed updating to use generics. I started on that but
>> paused when it looked like a number of new (dummy) classes would be
>> required.
>>
>> Considering alternative options, I wondered about depending on the
>> Jakarta API JARs directly. This would be a return to the 5.5.x era approach
>> without hopefully, the issue that JARs could be difficult to obtain.
>>
>> I have this implemented locally. It removes about 1000 lines of .java
>> files (although just under 10% of them are actual code) and adds about 100
>> lines of build file config and anither 50 of IDE configuration.
>>
>> With the Jakarta JARs being readily available in Maven Central I think
>> the primary issue that led to the current approach is no longer a concern.
>>
>> Thoughts on switching to using the JARs directly? I can provide a
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> +1
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> PR if that is helpful.
>
>
>> Mark
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