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Jakarta Servlet
https://eclipse.org/ee4j/servlet
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Why does this library exist? #535

Closed juman123 closed 1 year ago

juman123 commented 1 year ago

Or put another way, "Why couldn't Jetty still be based on the standard JDK Servlet API?"

I upgraded from Jetty v9 to Jetty v11 and had to go through my app replacing standard Servlet things with Jakarta Servlet things.

It was quite a bit of work, and left me wondering why it had to be done.

stuartwdouglas commented 1 year ago

Oracles legal department would not let anyone continue to use the javax namespace. There are lots of articles about it, e.g. https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/transition-from-java-ee-to-jakarta-ee.

juman123 commented 1 year ago

Alright, thanks for the information