Re: [jakarta.ee-community] Jakarta EE 9 migration

[Reza Rahman <reza_rahman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am adding some folks here that should help and including the Jakarta EE community alias for greater visibility.

BJ Hargrave did some work on this: https://blog.hargrave.io/2019/10/a-tool-for-jakarta-ee-package-renaming.html. I suggest you join forces with him so things could be accelerated. Pretty much every Jakarta EE 9+ implementation will need this component. The work as far as I know has not started, which means you could kick-start it.

Aside from this, are you interested in contributing to more mundane stuff like doing the actual package renaming on a spec-by-spec basis? That is honestly what the Jakarta EE Ambassadors are trying to build some community contribution towards.

Either way, it would be great to enlist you and the JUG as Jakarta EE Ambassadors.

For now, I am going to help spread word on your blog entry. Are you on Twitter - both you and the JUG? I prefer to do a shout out.

Reza Rahman
Principal Program Manager
Java on Azure

Please note that views here are my own as an individual community member and do not represent the views of my employer.

On 11/1/2019 7:57 PM, Mahmoud Anouti wrote:

With a related post here: 

https://mahmoudanouti.wordpress.com/2019/11/01/from-javax-to-jakarta-a-simple-proof-of-concept/

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 6:56 PM Mahmoud Anouti <mahmoud.anouti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Reza,

Hope you are doing well :-)

My name is Mahmoud. I’m organizer of a JUG in Beirut. I just read about the proposed plan for Jakarta EE 9, and in particular the intention of doing a migration of the javax namespace with the option of backwards compatibility. One of the suggestions mentioned in the mailing list proposal (

https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakartaee-platform-dev/msg00702.html

) was to create an open source project for such compatibility support.

Has any such project been already created? Or is there a related discussion about ideas on how such compatibility could be done? For example, I’m aware that bytecode manipulation can update type descriptors with the help of tools like Javassist. I’m interested in contributing as much as i can within my capacity to help make the namespace move smoother.

Thx and have a nice weekend.

Best,

Mahmoud