On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 4:03 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 05/02/2021 14:45, Johan Compagner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I already now get the first support request that our application doesn't > > run under Tomcat 10. > > > > So just want to get straight how this is going to work in the future. > > > > i see there is a migration tool, but that is for now quite useless for us > > because we also need to support Tomcat 9 or 8.. > > > > We are a tool/framework vendor we don't control what our users do, they > can > > still be on what ever servlet container they are on. (we only require the > > websocket implementation so that makes certain stuff the minimum) > > > > Is there or will there be a way that we can drop in a jar that is just a > > "redirect/wrapper"? > > At the moment, no. > > > And then I don't care too much about if it goes from javax.servlet to > > jakarta.servlet or the other way around.. I just want to support both > > deployments. That our customers can dump in the generated war by our > > tooling in any tomcat version (8,9 or 10) and it just works. > > There has been talk of integrating the migration tool into Tomcat 10 so > if you drop in a Java EE 8 app it automagically converts it to Jakarta > EE 9 before starting it. >
Yes, I was thinking about having a "ee8appBase" attribute on the host (defaults to ee8webapps, or something). Then any artefact placed in that folder gets processed (by the HostConfig) to the regular "appBase" using the migration tool with a direct API call, equivalent to using the CLI. Then it gets deployed as before from "appBase". The lack of interest about this was quite impressive ;) And it's rather gimmicky of course, it simply adds a possible deployment failure and inefficiency, when the user should instead process the artifact ahead of time. > > I'm guessing you'd prefer this to having to provide separate Java EE and > Jakarta EE versions (even if all you had to do to create the Jakarta EE > version was run it through the migration tool). > I'm a bit skeptical that it will be possible to avoid having native Jakarta versions forever. > On a related topic, it would be helpful to know if the migration tool > successfully converts your app. > +1 Rémy > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
