[Geoserver-devel] Jetty 9, end of community support

Hi all,
looking at the latest Jetty upgrade changelog I’ve stumbled into this announcement:

https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues/7958

An upgrade to Jetty 10 would require both a switch to Java 11 as the minimum version,
but also a switch to Jakarta EE 8, which will in turn require a Tomcat 10 as the minimum
target deploy version.

Now… Jetty 9 is not completely dead, it will still be released for security fixes, it just means the releases will be less frequent and in case we need it, we won’t be able to get help from the Jetty community.

A possible alternative would be to get rid of Jetty altogether, and switch to Embedded Tomcat instead, for both development (running from IDE) and the bin package. Or switch to Spring Boot single jar, which effectively also uses Embedded Tomcat.

Thoughts?

Also mind, whilst I think it’s important to discuss this, I have zero spare time left until schools start again in September, the little I had on Saturday morning is now spent with my kids… so I won’t be able to provide personal help on this one (or the Java 11 upgrade).

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Regards,

Andrea Aime

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Notes from meeting chat:

  • Small effort: Proposal to drop Java 8 now, so GeoServer 2.22 would Java 11 and Java 17 only, Tomcat 9 and Jetty 9
  • Plan for: Update to Jakarta during GeoServer 2.23 release cycle
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Reference:

https://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html

  • Tomat 10 / Jakarta Namespace / Servlet 5 / JVM 8 or greater
  • Tomcat 10.1 beta / Jakarta Namespace / Servlet 6 / JVM 11 (beta)


Jody Garnett