Feature #2109
Evaluate Java 8 supporting port of v2.9
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23.09.2021
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Description
As there are still some larger environments relying on Java 8 for the foreseeable future, we should evaluate the possibility
to create a easy to maintain Java 8 port of v2.9 as v2.9b.
- In particular this means to support Jetty 9.4.x and Servlet API 3.1 (see https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/)
- Within that Jetty support we need to support web-fragments from the classpath
Implementation Hints¶
- On fragment support
The problem with Jetty < 10 is that in MetaData.resolve Jetty only considers Fragments that have been found in "WebInfJars". That is, although the scanning actually discovers fragments on the classpath, Jetty does not include them.
On the other hand, if we force other Jars as WebInfJars, Jetty will discover resources twice and quite noisily complain about that in AnnotationParser.addParsedClass.
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