Re: [servlet-dev] servlet.next 5.1. or 6.0

[Greg Wilkins <gregw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark et al,

If we have some months, then I'd very much like to deprecate/remove a few more things along the lines of my Less is More blog.  Specifically:

• I would like to make cross context dispatch clearly an optional feature, so a container could still be compliant even if it never EVER returned non-null from `ServletContext.getContext(String)`
• Can we drop "Object Wrapper Identity"?  That would be a breaking change, but we'd be able to fix more broken async applications in the process.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 at 19:22, Mark Thomas <markt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 22/07/2021 23:52, Greg Wilkins wrote:
> Mark,
>
> How much time do we have?  What's the target date?

My current understanding is that October 15, 2021 is the target date.

The path changes we are currently discussing are - in my view - a
significant change. I think they would justify a 6.0 even if we can't
get everything we'd like to get done in 6.0 completed in that time frame.

If we continue to make progress on the path topic at the rate we have
been recently, I'm confident that I could get the changes implemented in
Tomcat and suitable tests added to the TCK in that time frame. Not that
I'd object if anyone else wanted to help out ;)

Cheers,

Mark


>
> Cheers
>
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2021, 01:52 Mark Thomas, <markt@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:markt@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     We never really firmed up on this. I submitted Jakarta EE 10 release
>     plan based on 6.0 on the basis it would be easier to switch from 6.0 to
>     5.1 than from 5.1. to 6.0.
>
>     At this point it would be good to decide which we are going to aim for.
>
>     My own view is we should aim for 6.0. This is primarily because I
>     really
>     want to remove all the deprecated code from the API.
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>     Mark
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