[CAMEL-15171] camel-http 3.3.0 component in maven central hard-codes javax.servlet-api version to 3.1.0

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.0
• Component/s: camel-http

Environment

• Java
  $ java --version
  openjdk 11.0.3 2019-04-16
  OpenJDK Runtime Environment AdoptOpenJDK (build 11.0.3+7)
  OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM AdoptOpenJDK (build 11.0.3+7, mixed mode)

• Maven
  $ mvn --version
  Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f)
  Maven home: /home/jtocancipa/local/src/apache-maven
  Java version: 11.0.3, vendor: AdoptOpenJDK, runtime: /home/user/jdk-11.0.3+7
  Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
  OS name: "linux", version: "5.6.16-050616-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jh. To.
• Created: 09/Jun/20 20:40
• Updated: 10/Jun/20 05:11
• Resolved: 10/Jun/20 05:11

Description

While migrating an application from camel 2.24.3 to 3.3.0 it was noticed that fetching a web application was failing with:

2020-06-09 19:13:21,142 DEBUG http-nio-127.0.0.1-9080-exec-4 [] [] org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Tomcat].[localhost] - Processing ErrorPage[errorCode=0, location=/error]
2020-06-09 19:13:21,142 ERROR http-nio-127.0.0.1-9080-exec-4 [] [] org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Tomcat].[localhost] - Exception Processing ErrorPage[errorCode=0, location=/error]
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.getHttpServletMapping()Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletMapping; 

With camel 2.24.3 the camel-http dependency tree in the application contains:

[INFO] +- org.apache.camel:camel-http:jar:2.24.3:compile
[INFO] |  +- org.apache.camel:camel-http-common:jar:2.24.3:compile
[INFO] |  +- javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:jar:4.0.1:compile
[INFO] |  \- commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:jar:3.1:compile

With camel 3.3.0 the camel-http dependency tree in the application contains:

[INFO] |  +- org.apache.camel:camel-http:jar:3.3.0:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.apache.camel:camel-cloud:jar:3.3.0:compile
[INFO] |  |  +- org.apache.camel:camel-http-common:jar:3.3.0:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  +- org.apache.camel:camel-http-base:jar:3.3.0:compile
[INFO] |  |  |  \- org.apache.camel:camel-attachments:jar:3.3.0:compile
[INFO] |  |  |     \- com.sun.activation:javax.activation:jar:1.2.0:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:jar:3.1.0:compile

For camel-http 3.3.0 it was noticed that in maven central the javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api dependency version is hard-coded to 3.1.0, see: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/camel/camel-http/3.3.0/camel-http-3.3.0.pom.

For camel-http 2.24.3 the javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api dependency version is not hard-coded, and can be overriden by setting defining the javax.servlet-api-version property, see:
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/camel/camel-http/2.24.3/camel-http-2.24.3.pom

Can you please verify whether this is an issue with the Camel release 3.3.0 deployment?

Thanks for your time!