[FELIX-6508] Consume Servlet API Version Range (2.x,5] in WebConsole

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: webconsole-4.7.2
• Fix Version/s: webconsole-4.8.2
• Component/s: Web Console
• Assignee: Carsten Ziegeler
• Reporter: Rakesh Kumar
• Created: 21/Feb/22 06:26
• Updated: 05/Jun/23 23:49
• Resolved: 13/May/22 06:57

Description

In WebConsole and its plugins the servlet api version range should be (2.x,5] so that servlet api v4 can be used wherever available.

and we also need to point to jakarta maven coordinates, the v4.x binary still uses javax.servlet napsepace.

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/jakarta.servlet/jakarta.servlet-api -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>jakarta.servlet</groupId>
    <artifactId>jakarta.servlet-api</artifactId>
    <version>4.0.4</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency> 

please see prior discussion here - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-6497

Issue Links

• relates to: FELIX-6612 Upgrade Apache Felix to Jakarta Servlet API 6.x