Re: Fuseki Evolution

[Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org>]

On 02/01/2022 16:23, Andy Seaborne wrote:

> == javax-jakarta transition
> 
> jakarta is JavaEE at the Eclipse Foundation).
> 
> At some time, there will need to be transition from javax.* to jakarta.* 
> for the package imports of javax.* that relate to Java EE.
> 
> For Fuseki that is mainly for javax.servlet but also an implication for 
> the WAR file.
> 
> For the Fuseki code itself, there isn't much impact, just a rename. 
> Partially this is because Fuseki does not use JavaEE features. For 
> example, request dispatch is not done with web.xml (Fuseki dispatch is 
> dynamic, not a static setup). FusekiMain does not use web.xml at all.
> 
> Jetty version 11 is the same as Jetty version 10 except that "javax" -> 
> "jakarta" renaming. A big bang switch over but it should be mechanical 
> translation.
> 
> There are two dependencies that use javax.servlet -- commons-fileupload 
> and shiro.
> 
> commons-fileupload code does not update very often (last version was 
> 2018). It is small and Fuseki only uses a small part of it so we could 
> adopt the code we need for file upload from HTML pages.

There is a commons-fileupload2 in the pipeline.

This is for jakarta compatible.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FILEUPLOAD-309

     Andy