[PROPOSAL] Introduce spec features to simplify users experience

[Jean-Baptiste Onofre <jb...@nanthrax.net>]

Hi guys,

Several users reported issues with JDK 9+ about spec packages.

Users are struggling about spec packages since JDK 9+ and "classic" questions are:

- who’s provide the package ?
- should I use spec bundles and where they are located ?
- should I change bin/karaf to use —add-module ?
- should I use lib/jdk9plus and update etc/jre.properties ?

IMHO, the always preferred approach should be spec bundles.

To improve users experience with JDK9+, I would like to create a new features repository: spec.
This features repository XML will provide spec feature (JAXB, JAXP, …) that other projects and users can leverage.
It would reduce the coupling with JDK packages and a straight forward usage.

Thoughts ?

Regards
JB

Re: [PROPOSAL] Introduce spec features to simplify users experience

[Jean-Baptiste Onofre <jb...@nanthrax.net>]

Yes, just to be clear: I would like to remove lib/jdk9plus, and provide spec features "only".

Regards
JB

> Le 5 mars 2020 à 10:57, Romain Manni-Bucau <rm...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> +1, jdk9plus should disappear to make karaf frictionless IMHO
> 
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> Le jeu. 5 mars 2020 à 10:13, Jean-Baptiste Onofre <jb...@nanthrax.net> a
> écrit :
> 
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> Several users reported issues with JDK 9+ about spec packages.
>> 
>> Users are struggling about spec packages since JDK 9+ and "classic"
>> questions are:
>> 
>> - who’s provide the package ?
>> - should I use spec bundles and where they are located ?
>> - should I change bin/karaf to use —add-module ?
>> - should I use lib/jdk9plus and update etc/jre.properties ?
>> 
>> IMHO, the always preferred approach should be spec bundles.
>> 
>> To improve users experience with JDK9+, I would like to create a new
>> features repository: spec.
>> This features repository XML will provide spec feature (JAXB, JAXP, …)
>> that other projects and users can leverage.
>> It would reduce the coupling with JDK packages and a straight forward
>> usage.
>> 
>> Thoughts ?
>> 
>> Regards
>> JB

Re: [PROPOSAL] Introduce spec features to simplify users experience

[Romain Manni-Bucau <rm...@gmail.com>]

+1, jdk9plus should disappear to make karaf frictionless IMHO

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Le jeu. 5 mars 2020 à 10:13, Jean-Baptiste Onofre <jb...@nanthrax.net> a
écrit :

> Hi guys,
>
> Several users reported issues with JDK 9+ about spec packages.
>
> Users are struggling about spec packages since JDK 9+ and "classic"
> questions are:
>
> - who’s provide the package ?
> - should I use spec bundles and where they are located ?
> - should I change bin/karaf to use —add-module ?
> - should I use lib/jdk9plus and update etc/jre.properties ?
>
> IMHO, the always preferred approach should be spec bundles.
>
> To improve users experience with JDK9+, I would like to create a new
> features repository: spec.
> This features repository XML will provide spec feature (JAXB, JAXP, …)
> that other projects and users can leverage.
> It would reduce the coupling with JDK packages and a straight forward
> usage.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> Regards
> JB