$)CThanks, Markus. I created the following issue: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jaxrs-api/issues/815to make the JAXB dependency optional for JAX-RS.
I know we don't have a lot of time before we need to report back to the Steering Committee. But, if there's enough interest in your community to support this issue, then maybe we can adjust this Add vote to only include Activation? I've seen some additional -1 votes come in after mine, so there is some hesitancy on Adding JAXB to Jakarta. I think the JAXB dependency was key to some of the +1 votes (imho).
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Kevin Sutter
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From: "Markus KARG" <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'jakartaee-platform developer discussions'" <jakartaee-platform-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/27/2019 00:40
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] VOTE: Specifications to add in JakartaEE 9
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Kevin,
JAX-RS API itself is not deeply related with JAXB, but the spec just mandates its support. We could modify the spec to simply make the support optional, so JAX-RS vendors would be free to provide their own copy of the API JAR instead of relying on Jakarta EE JAR to contain the JAXB interfaces and classes. In fact, I feel like there even would be a majority of JAX-RS committers actively supporting this idea, as modern applications rely on JSON instead of XML, and existing applications will still work fine once the JAX-RS vendor decides to still deliver support for JAXB. But in the end, we have to do a poll among the JAX-RS committers. Do you like to open an issue in our tracker?
-Markus
Von:jakartaee-platform-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jakartaee-platform-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Kevin Sutter
Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. November 2019 20:41
An: jakartaee-platform developer discussions
Betreff: Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] VOTE: Specifications to add in JakartaEE 9
Werner,
Let's not mix up the MicroProfile and Jakarta EE spec co-usage with this discussion. That aspect of the relationship is being worked.
Any evolution of the JAXB API has to be outside of the javax namespace. Whether it's done as part of the Jakarta Platform or as a separate EF project, it still would have to be done as part of Specification Project. And, this Specification Project would need to be part of a Working Group that has accepted the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process. Right now, that limits us to the Jakarta EE Working Group. Thus, a separate EF project would still be under the EE4J umbrella. Given our current constraints.
Markus,
One question I have is how dependent is JAX-RS on JAXB? Or, could JAX-RS be modified to remove the dependency on JAXB? For example, if the voting for this Add doesn't pass and JAXB is not added to Jakarta (integrated or separate), then what impact will that have on JAX-RS?
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Kevin Sutter
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From: Werner Keil <werner.keil@xxxxxxx>
To: jakartaee-platform developer discussions <jakartaee-platform-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/26/2019 13:22
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] VOTE: Specifications to add in JakartaEE 9
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I think that
!/s clearly a Question for many of the legal Folks at Eclipse Foundation and others (especially Oracle who was the main or only contributor during JCP times) if the reverse direction of other discussed possibilities like graduating selected MicroProfile features into Jakarta EE specs was also possible?
Under an assumed Name of "microprofile-jaxb" or similar.
No Need to be a lawyer, that it must neither Keep the javax nor a jakarta Namespace anywhere, if such a fork was even possible.
Werner
From: Markus KARG
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 20:12
To: 'jakartaee-platform developer discussions'
Subject: Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] VOTE: Specifications to add in JakartaEE 9
If nobody else wants JAXB, I could offer to further maintain it separately as a EF project outside of the Jakarta EE platform scope.
So you do not have to care about it, and I would care about those people that like to get it enhanced.
-Markus
Von:jakartaee-platform-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jakartaee-platform-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Amelia Eiras
Gesendet: Montag, 25. November 2019 23:49
An: jakartaee-platform developer discussions
Betreff: Re: [jakartaee-platform-dev] VOTE: Specifications to add in Jakarta EE 9
if so, what do we do with Mark K.s Nov 18th written feedback on active contributors to JAXB? ... JAX-WS?
direct quote:
There still are people out there who actively use JAXB and who even like to contribute new features to drive new releases of JAXB (me included).
It is not possible to make everyone happy while the renaming occurs yet I like the idea of later time "evolving those API" yet I worry that today we already know that there are contributors, via actions do we choose to tell them that their collaborations must stop until they rally forces to prove us wrong b/c their voice today is not enough prove.
there is no neutral ground in this ecosystem, there is this forum that traces how we get to a future. :) lets keep this thread going!
Amelia Eiras
twitter.com/ameliaeiras
Tribe:http://tomitribe.com https://tribestream.io
OSS:http://microprofile.io https://jakarta.ee
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 2:35 PM Kevin Sutter <sutter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-1
I think the JAXB and JAX-WS question has to be answered. I think we either need to add both of them, or neither of them. At this point, I would prefer that we don't add either of them. Let both JAXB and JAX-WS to continue to live in their current state using the javax package name. If we get enough interest in evolving these and supporting these in the future, then we can entertain bringing them forward -- maybe as standalone Specs under EE4J, maybe as part of the Platform. But, let's not make this decision right now. There are several app servers that already support Java SE 11 with these "missing" features and they have figured out a way to support them. Let's leave it that way until someone shows a need and desire to move them.
I'm okay with Activation since Bill has shown an interest in moving that forward for Jakarta EE mail. But, even if that got "dropped" to be consistent with none of the Java SE technologies moving into Jakarta EE, I would be fine with that as well.
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From: "Steve Millidge (Payara)" <steve.millidge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: jakartaee-platform developer discussions <jakartaee-platform-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/17/2019 10:58
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [jakartaee-platform-dev] VOTE: Specifications to add in Jakarta EE 9
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See previous email for context.
All committers please vote on this proposal for specifications to added from Java SE 8 to the Jakarta EE 9 platform specification.
The following APIs corresponding to Java SE 8 APIs will be
added to Jakarta EE 9 Full Profile
- Jakarta XML Binding
- Jakarta Activation
Please vote by reply with +1, 0, -1 in accordance with the Eclipse Development Process.
Thanks
Steve
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