On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 1:28 AM Paul Nicolucci <pnicolu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > At a minimum could the Expression Language be built to Java 17 bytecode? > There is nothing in the Expression Language that requires Java 21. > > I have a branch with some initial changes to get that working here: > https://github.com/pnicolucci/tomcat/commit/cae7f1e02eaeaf16a75395d9bcdddc9a02e65580 > > Some additional manifest updates will be required that I can work on if the > community is open to this option.
Yes, this will be changed back to 17, along with almost everything else. Overall I believe staying on 21 is not worth it as we would get tons of requests for 17 support, just like yours. Rémy > Thanks, > > Paul Nicolucci > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 4:48 PM David Blevins <david.blev...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Feb 20, 2024, at 8:08 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > Looking at the latest version of the Jakarta EE 11 release plan, the > > minimum Java version has been dropped to Java 17. > > > > > > https://jakartaee.github.io/platform/jakartaee11/JakartaEE11ReleasePlan > > > > > > On that basis I think we have no choice but to reduce the minimum Java > > version for Tomcat 11 to Java 17. > > > > Implementations are not required to support Java 17, it is simply now one > > of the allowed options. We can absolutely continue with java 21 (or any > > JDK 17 or up) if we like. > > > > The decision was made to allow implementations to certify with 17 support > > if they wanted as none of the specs took advantage of Java 21 features, so > > there is no real basis to reject their certification requests. It is still > > hoped there will be implementations that take advantage of Java 21 features > > and brag publicly about them. > > > > > > -David > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
