[CXF-8371] Support Jakarta EE 9.0+

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Andriy Redko
• Reporter: Andriy Redko
• Created: 11/Nov/20 14:26
• Updated: 18/Sep/23 18:48
• Resolved: 07/Dec/22 17:48

Description

Jakarta EE 9 is NOT BACKWARD COMPATIBLE with Java EE 8

Understanding Jakarta EE 9: http://blog.supol.cz/?p=202

Tooling:

 - Eclipse Transformer:

    - https://github.com/eclipse/transformer/
    - https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.transformer

Risks & Deps:

  - Spring: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/25354

                 https://spring.io/blog/2021/12/16/spring-framework-6-0-m1-released

The path other projects have taken (majority went with 2 release branches):

 - Hibernate Validator 6.2.x / javax.* and 7.x / jakarta.* (https://in.relation.to/2021/01/06/hibernate-validator-700-62-final-released/)

 - Tomcat 9  / javax.* and 10 / jakarta.* (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TOMCAT/Jakarta+EE+Release+Numbering)

 - Jetty 10 / javax.* and 11 / jakarta.* (https://webtide.com/jetty-10-and-11-have-arrived/)

 - ActiveMQ https://blogs.apache.org/activemq/entry/activemq-artemis-embraces-jakarta-ee

 

The blockers:

 - Swagger v1 / v2
 - Project Grizzly (https://javaee.github.io/grizzly/)
 - Jetty Continuations (https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues/4934) is gone
 - Jakarta WebSocket (including Jetty WebSocket)
 - Jackson
 - ActiveMQ (https://blogs.apache.org/activemq/entry/activemq-artemis-embraces-jakarta-ee) to Artemis
 - Brave / Opentracing
 - Atmosphere
 - Weld / OpenWebBeans
 - OSGi / Apache Karaf (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-6389)

 - jaxb2-basics(https://github.com/highsource/jaxb2-basics

Microprofile:

 - https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-rest-client/pull/319

 - https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-rest-client/releases/tag/3.0-RC2

 - https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-open-api/releases/tag/3.0-RC1

 - https://microprofile.io/2021/12/07/microprofile-5-0-release/

 

Jakarta EE Platform 9.1 specs (used by CXF):

 - Jakarta Activation 2.0
 - Jakarta Annotations 2.0
 - Jakarta Bean Validation 3.0
 - Jakarta Connectors 2.0
 - Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection 3.0
 - Jakarta Dependency Injection 2.0
 - Jakarta Enterprise Beans 4.0
 - Jakarta Enterprise Web Services 2.0 (Optional)
 - Jakarta Expression Language 4.0
 - Jakarta Interceptors 2.0
 - Jakarta JSON Binding 2.0
 - Jakarta JSON Processing 2.0
 - Jakarta Mail 2.0
 - Jakarta Messaging 3.0
 - Jakarta Persistence 3.0
 - Jakarta RESTful Web Services 3.0
 - Jakarta Security 2.0
 - Jakarta Servlet 5.0
 - Jakarta SOAP with Attachments 2.0 (Optional)
 - Jakarta Transactions 2.0
 - Jakarta WebSocket 2.0
 - Jakarta Web Services Metadata 3.0 (Optional)
 - Jakarta XML Binding 3.0 (Optional)
 - Jakarta XML Web Services 3.0 (Optional)

Jakarta EE Platform TCK 9.0.1:

 - https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/issues/321

• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/wiki/JakartaEE9

Issue Links

• Blocked: CAUSEWAY-3275 Migrate from Spring Framework 5.x to 6.x
• depends upon: CXFXJC-41 Regression with JAXB 2.3.5 / 3.x: "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" is not a part of this compilation
• depends upon: CXFXJC-40 Support Jakarta EE 9.0+
• depends upon: FELIX-6389 add support for servlet 5.0 (tomcat 10)
• fixes: CXF-8707 apache cxf not starting after upgrading to hibernate 6.0.2
• is a parent of: CXF-8666 Spring6 for JSR 250 annotations isn't disabled for jakarta.xml.ws.WebServiceContext
• is a parent of: CXF-8675 jakarta.xml.bind.ModuleUtil error after jaxb 3.0.1 upgrade
• is a parent of: CXF-8668 Set SniHostCheck to false for SSLNettyClientTest
• is depended upon by: CXF-8671 Support Jakarta EE 10
• is depended upon by: CXF-8302 Support JAX-RS 3.0, milestones already available
• relates to: CXF-8763 Migrate to Jakarta WebSocket (from Jetty Websockets)
• relates to: CXF-8758 Migration path for Wiremock (Jetty 11/JakartaEE)
• relates to: CXF-8788 Remove the 'jakarta' profile (which enables the Spring milestone repositories)
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #855
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #888
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #912
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #912

Sub-Tasks

• Migration path for Swagger v1.x: Closed
• Migrate Microprofile OpenAPI: Closed
• Migration path for Project Grizzly: Closed
• Migration path for Jetty 11: Closed
• Migration path for Brave: Closed
• Migration path for Opentracing: Closed
• Migration path for Atmosphere: Closed
• Migration path for OpenWebBeans: Closed
• Migration path for Apache Karaf: Closed
• Migration path for OSGi: Closed
• Bring back temporary excluded modules: Closed
• Migration path for OpenJPA: Closed
• Migration path for jaxb2-basics: Closed
• Update the migration guide: Closed
• Make the Spring / Spring Boot dependencies optional: Closed
• Address tests failures due to Servlet 6.0 baseline in Spring Test: Closed