Re: [config-dev] [jakartaee-platform-dev] [EXTERNAL] Re: [microprofile]

[Reza Rahman <reza_rahman@xxxxxxxx>]

You're hardly alone in this view. It's been what I have clearly heard from end users for years now: https://reza-rahman.me/2021/04/10/jakarta-ee-microprofile-alignment-survey-results/. It's also been the long-standing joint position of the Jakarta EE Ambassadors: https://jakartaee-ambassadors.io/2021/05/10/jakarta-ee-ambassadors-joint-position-on-jakarta-ee-and-microprofile-alignment/.

Personally these views carry a lot of weight with me. It reminds me of the many years we carried the EJB baggage despite clear long-term signals from users that we needed to forge a more CDI-centric path sooner.

On 2/20/2025 5:16 PM, lenny--- via jakartaee-platform-dev wrote:

I think, rather than “copy-paste”, the intent should be (is?) to move Config (or portion of it) to Jakarta.

As far as I understand, the intent of MP was to innovate quicker than Jakarta EE could, and then move more stable APIs into Jakarta EE.

Now that EE is innovating at a quicker pace, it’s time to update the roadmap to converge any stable APIs under Jakarta EE umbrella.

Moving Config to EE is a great step forward, even if it’s only a portion of config.

This involves deprecating the portions of MP config going to EE ASAP, so there is no “divergence” issues.

On Feb 20, 2025, at 1:32 PM, Otavio Santana via jakartaee-platform-dev <jakartaee-platform-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I like option 1 (despite several concerns about copy/paste) and the trade-offs on this decision.

I enjoy it, but my concern is the MicroProfile and Jakarta EE. It looks like two distant projects, but in reality, both are under the Eclipse Foundation umbrella; we generally have the same organization and committers. When will we start integrating both? For the user having two different projects with the same goal, it looks odd and requires a considerable copy/paste design. Eventually, the executive committee needs to define a merger or methodology for integrating those or any other solution than copy/paste projects.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM Roberto Cortez via config-dev <config-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Copying the API is not a decision that should be made lightly. Before even considering that direction, we must consider:

- If MP updates, what will Jakarta do? Copy again? Diverge?

- User experience by having two identical APIs (at first) in their project.

- Runtimes additional work (more classes to load, more lookups, more RSS, more startup time)

As for Incompatible Changes, the last one made on purpose was in MicroProfile Config 2.0 (released in Mar 2021), and the main motivation was to add new features (the _expression_ support). The last one was the Jakarta rename (which all Jakarta specs also had to do), so I don’t think this is an issue.

Yes, I agree there is a technical issue (which I’ve pointed out many times) about MP Config depending on CDI, but a copy to Jakarta will not fix that. The MP community already expressed willingness to make the necessary adjustments for the spec and the API to be consumed as-is in a standalone way. In reality, it could have been done a long time ago, but previous efforts around a Jakarta Config specification hurt all the outstanding work in MP Config.

Cheers,

Roberto

On 20 Feb 2025, at 11:35, Steve Millidge (Payara) via config-dev <config-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

+1 to Werner here for copying the API into the Jakarta namespace within a Jakarta specification as a first step.

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From: jakartaee-platform-dev <jakartaee-platform-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of werner.keil--- via jakartaee-platform-dev
Sent: 19 February 2025 20:37
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Cc: werner.keil@xxxxxxx; Jakarta EE specifications <jakarta.ee-spec@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Arjan Tijms via jakartaee-platform-dev <jakartaee-platform-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] [config-dev] [EXTERNAL] Re: [microprofile] Config for Jakarta EE 12 and MP.next

 

It was discussed in the Spec Committee call although not much beyond mentioning the two options discussed elsewhere:

·        One approach would be to consume the existing specification

·        Another approach would be to copy it

 

I prefer to copy of the API as mentioned before.

 

Here are some of the most compelling arguments for it:

 

If MP Config was consumed, it would affect how it's developed within the MP release trains and "platform".

 

Config 3.1 https://microprofile.io/specifications/config/3-1/ like all other releases has a chapter "Incompatible Changes".

This is very much a no-go for a stable and mature spec within Jakarta EE, where such incompatible changes happen much slower, than the MP ecosystem and community might be used to.

 

The last incompatible change for Config 3.0 was "align with Jakarta EE 9.1". Which shows another challenge MP Config and all of MicroProfile would face, if it was embedded into Jakarta EE. Config had to predate relevant Jakarta EE releases and be frozen afterwards, while the rest of MP would have to wait for the respective Jakarta EE release before a new release train can depart.

 

The list of MP compatible products: https://microprofile.io/compatible/ has quite a few gaps, e.g. Wildfly 35 seems to also support MP 7, but the last compatibility claim was for Wildfly 27 and MP 5. Some products may even avoid duplicate compatibility and only certify against Jakarta EE, but still support some MP specs at an earlier version. Which could lead to a mix between two or more different versions of MP Config.

 

Best Regards,

Werner

Config 3.1 - MicroProfile MicroProfile Config provides a way to achieve this goal by aggregating configuration from many different ConfigSources and presents a single merged view to the user. This allows the application to bundle default configuration within the application. microprofile.io

 

 

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Subject: AW: [config-dev] [EXTERNAL] Re: [microprofile] Config for Jakarta EE 12 and MP.next

 

I also assume, we'll discuss this further in the specification committee.

 

It's not just a namespace issue or circular dependency. If e.g. the Core Profile was to lose config support only to avoid that kind of circular dependency, why can't the API be moved to Jakarta EE and MP use it or act as a compatible implementation?

 

There are also rather different compatibility and quality expectations to Jakarta EE than MicroProfile and if we allow to dilute that, it would affect the platform as a whole and its users.

 

Werner

 

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From: config-dev <config-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Reza Rahman via config-dev <config-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2025 5:15 PM
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Cc: Reza Rahman <reza_rahman@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [config-dev] [EXTERNAL] Re: [microprofile] Config for Jakarta EE 12 and MP.next

 

I plan to bring this up in the Jakarta EE Steering Committee. The technical debate aside, I think there are also process and branding/IP considerations here. For one, it's important to track down what the existing consensus had been in Jakarta EE WG/Jakarta Config with regards to namespace. A sanity check from the perspective of branding/IP is also in order as these are in reality two different working groups.

I agree that the most prudent approach is avoiding needlessly introducing mutual inter-dependencies. Both MicroProfile and Jakarta EE should be able to independently evolve their configuration approaches when needed. Separate namespaces with APIs synced manually/selectively when needed does that well.

On 2/11/2025 11:00 AM, Ed Burns via config-dev wrote:

Even with approaches that allow for mitigating the circular dependencies, I am strongly predisposed to prefer the repackaging approach that allows the content of MicroProfile config to be accessed by Jakarta specifications using an entirely Jakarta namespace.

 

Ed

 

From: 'Emily Jiang' via MicroProfile <microprofile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, February 10, 2025 at 18:20
To: microprofile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <microprofile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: config-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx <config-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [microprofile] [config-dev] Config for Jakarta EE 12 and MP.next

My responses are inline. We will discuss this issue in more detail at this Tuesday's MP Technical call. Please join if you are interested. The joining details can be found here.

 

On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM 'Roberto Cortez' via MicroProfile <microprofile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Ed,

 

Thank you for the response.

 

1. A technical problem regarding introducing circular dependencies.

 

Yes, the issue is that MP Config is dependent on CDI. This has been discussed many times, and I believe MP is open to make the necessary adjustments and removing that restriction. In the previous Jakarta Config initiative, that was already a goal. One of the things I’ve been advocating is for MP Config (or any other Config specification), to work standalone without any other dependency. This would allow any Java project to consume it without requiring the use of the platform. As for the CDI, that can be an addendum to the specification or even be integrated into CDI itself.

 

+1. We can rework MP Config to use the CDI approach by dividing MP Config to MP Config Core and MP Config full, where MP Config Core will just have the spi part while the other part will include CDI. In this way, Jakarta can simply include MP Config Core in the Jakarta Core profile. With this, I think Jakarta can simply include MP Config Core with the need of having Jakarta Config.  With this approach, renaming microprofile-config.properties to application.properties is not mandatory as the package namespace would contain microprofile.

2. A non-technical problem where Jakarta specs may not make

   dependencies on MicroProfile artifacts.

 

Can we clarify what the problem is exactly? Is this something that can be worked out?

 

What I’m trying to understand is if we could work on the technical and non-technical issues that prevent Jakarta from adopting MP as is (without copying and renaming packages), and assuming we can have those fixed, would Jakarta be able to use it as a regular dependency?

To my best knowledge, there was no restriction for Jakarta to use MP as long as the MP spec do not depend on Jakarta. If MP Config Core is consumed by Jakarta, there would be no circular dependency. 

 

 

 

Cheers,

Roberto

 

On 6 Feb 2025, at 00:40, 'Ed Burns' via MicroProfile <microprofile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 

From: microprofile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <microprofile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Reza On Wednesday, February 5, 2025 at 07:58 m.reza.rahman@xxxxxxxxx> RR said:

Date: 

 

RR> Just using application.properties is a good idea indeed.

 

RR> I am sure Ed and Jared will respond, but I believe the idea here

RR> is to allow both Jakarta EE and MicroProfile to evolve

RR> independently in accordance with their own needs and also

RR> collaborate when best seen fit.

 

Indeed, doing that now.

 

From: 'Roberto Cortez' via MicroProfile <microprofile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> RC wrote:

 

RC> A few comments inline. Thank you!

 

On 4 Feb 2025, at 18:18, Jared Anderson via config-dev <config-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> JA wrote:

 

JA> This email is a follow up to the discussion at the 2025-02-04

JA> Jakarta EE platform call.

 

JA> In that call, we discussed an approach where Jakarta EE 12 could

JA> effectively use MicroProfile Config "as is" with some important

JA> non-technical accommodations.

 

JA> 1. The APIs for Jakarta Config would be the MicroProfile Config APIs,

JA> but with jakarta namespace. Yes, a copy/paste.

 

RC> After the initial copy/paste, how would things evolve? 

 

My intention is that technical evolution would take place in the

MicroProfile Config project. In the event of Jakarta specific

accommodations, we would

 

1. Cross that bridge when we come to it.

2. Try to come up with solutions that are palatable to both communities, Jakarta 

   EE and MicroProfile.

3. If absolutely necessary, we would define content in MP Config that

   would have the proviso such as "this only takes effect in Jakarta

   EE environments". There is ample precedent for such approaches. See

   what we did with Faces when Validation was present (in EE) vs. not

   present (such as in Tomcat).

 

RC> Would Jakarta keep the APIs in-sync?

 

Yes. Every time Jakarta needed a new version, they would pick up a

chosen release of MP config to give the copy/paste treatment to.

 

RC> What restricts Jakarta from using the API as-is?

 

As far as I know: 

 

1. A technical problem regarding introducing circular dependencies.

2. A non-technical problem where Jakarta specs may not make

   dependencies on MicroProfile artifacts.

 

JA> 2. The implementation may delegate to the MicroProfile Config implementation.

 

JA> 3. The Spec document would be one-line: see the corresponding

JA> MicroProfile config spec document.  May need additional text to

JA> talk about the difference in namespace and adding in

JA> jakarta-config.properties until a new MP Config version added that

JA> to its specification.  See #5 below.

 

JA> 4. The TCK would be a copy/paste of the MicroProfile Config TCK

JA> and updating the name space and adding jakarta-config.properties

JA> testing

 

JA> 5. Need to introduce a new line in the ConfigSource (MicroProfile

JA> Config API) “Some configuration sources are known as default

JA> configuration sources. These configuration sources are normally

JA> available in all automatically-created configurations, and can be

JA> manually added to manually-created configurations as well. The

JA> default configuration sources are:

 

JA> 1. System properties, with an ordinal value of 400

 

JA> 2. Environment properties, with an ordinal value of 300

 

JA> 3. The /META-INF/jakarta-config.properties resource, with an ordinal value of 200

 

JA> 4. The /META-INF/microprofile-config.properties resource, with an

JA> ordinal value of 100

 

RC> How about dropping microprofile-config.properties (keep it for

RC> compatibility) and jakarta-config.properties, and use

RC> application.properties? This one is already used by many popular

RC> runtimes like Spring, Quarkus, and Micronaut, to name a few.

 

Roberto, that's a rad idea. I like it.

Ed

 

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