On 2023/10/20 07:30:04 Rémy Maucherat wrote: > Hi, > > I am very pleased to report that after years of development, the > Foreign Function & Memory API is (finally !) no longer a preview API. > It is now available in build 20 of Java 22 where it can be used > without the preview flag. > Downloads: https://jdk.java.net/22/ > > Assuming Mark accepts working with an alpha build of Java 22 to > produce the releases of Tomcat 11, it is now possible to merge the > OpenSSL code. > As a reminder, it is located here right now: > https://github.com/apache/tomcat/tree/main/modules/openssl-foreign > > The idea is to build the two packages that need it using a 22 release > target, while the rest would release target 21 as usual. Using some > conditionals, it should be possible to allow casual building with 21, > as it would be bad to drive away contributors who would understandably > not be very interested in alpha Java 22 yet. I would also add the > jextract scripts in res/jextract (using jextract at this time is going > to remain harder however). > > "Final" Java 22 will occur next March around the time Jakarta EE 11 is > supposed to be released, so this aligns to a large extent even in the > unlikely event where there is no EE schedule slippage. > > As for actual use of the component, that's where things will hurt. > Given the Java support schedules, this would basically be mostly > unused until the next Java LTS release (probably 25, almost two years > away). However, the support lifecycle of a Tomcat branch being what it > is, it would still be relatively early in the Tomcat 11 lifecycle. And > in the meantime it would give the component a lot of testing, with > probably a significant amount of niche uses (containers ?). > > Comments ?
This is actually good news! While I will take a look at your code at some point ot learn how this new API works and learn from you, do you think that it could live in a separate module (repo) which produces a JAR implementing an interface then making it available to Tomat 11+ instead of making the build more complex and conditional? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
