[FINERACT-846] Upgrade Fineract 1.x to Java 11 and Upgrade Dependencies to latest versions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Labels: gsoc2020
• Assignee: Petri Tuomola
• Reporter: Awasum Yannick
• Created: 21/Feb/20 07:43
• Updated: 08/May/20 23:46
• Resolved: 07/May/20 20:28

Description

Upgrade Fineract 1.x from Java 8 to Java 11 so we can start using the latest LTS Java version and features.

This will also require you to upgrade other Fineract 1.x dependencies from their current to latest possible versions.

Issue Links

• Blocked: FINERACT-865 Strengthen/Harden Fineract 1.x to LTS Version by Upgrading Java & Improving Code Coverage of Tests
• blocks: FINERACT-884 Upgrade rest-assured to latest version (later than 3.3.0. from Spring Boot BOM), which requires Java 11/9+
• depends upon: FINERACT-908 Upgrade OpenJPA in Fineract from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1
• incorporates: FINERACT-956 Logging missing / broken (since Spring Boot and/or Java 11 upgrade)
• incorporates: FINERACT-937 Use Java 11 instead of 12 use on Travis
• incorporates: FINERACT-938 Document (or drop) use of Xerces2 (without requiring NekoHTML)
• incorporates: FINERACT-940 The package javax.xml.parsers is accessible from more than one module: <unnamed>, java.xml (Eclipse only?)
• incorporates: FINERACT-943 Unit tests cannot be easily directly launced in Eclipse anymore
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #820