Re: ECJ, Tomcat 8.5.x and Java 17

2021-10-09 Thread Christopher Schultz
Mark, On 10/7/21 11:46, Mark Thomas wrote: Hi, As you will have seen from the 8.5.72 release vote and/or bug 65599 there is an issue with 8.5.x, Java 17 and ECJ. In short: - the Java EE 7 spec requires that Tomcat 8.5.x runs on Java 7 - Tomcat 8.5.x ships with ECJ 4.6.3, the newest version t

Re: ECJ, Tomcat 8.5.x and Java 17

2021-10-08 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
пт, 8 окт. 2021 г. в 11:18, Mark Thomas : > > On 07/10/2021 20:59, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: > > чт, 7 окт. 2021 г. в 18:46, Mark Thomas : > > > > >> Is this a problem worth solving? If it is, is there a better way? > > > > Hi! > > > > Last few days I was thinking of the following approaches: > >

Re: ECJ, Tomcat 8.5.x and Java 17

2021-10-08 Thread Mark Thomas
On 07/10/2021 20:59, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: чт, 7 окт. 2021 г. в 18:46, Mark Thomas : Is this a problem worth solving? If it is, is there a better way? Hi! Last few days I was thinking of the following approaches: I view users having to explicitly make a choice as a disadvantage ra

Re: ECJ, Tomcat 8.5.x and Java 17

2021-10-07 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
чт, 7 окт. 2021 г. в 22:59, Konstantin Kolinko : > чт, 7 окт. 2021 г. в 18:46, Mark Thomas : > > > Approach e) > Combine ecj-4.6.3.jar and ecj-4.20.jar (or later) into a single > multi-release jar, "ecj-4.3.6_and_4.20.jar". > See > https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/238 > > I mean that > - The META-INF/

Re: ECJ, Tomcat 8.5.x and Java 17

2021-10-07 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
чт, 7 окт. 2021 г. в 18:46, Mark Thomas : > > Hi, > > As you will have seen from the 8.5.72 release vote and/or bug 65599 > there is an issue with 8.5.x, Java 17 and ECJ. > > In short: > - the Java EE 7 spec requires that Tomcat 8.5.x runs on Java 7 > - Tomcat 8.5.x ships with ECJ 4.6.3, the newest