svn commit: r521562 - in head/java: . wildfly17 wildfly17/files

[Pedro Giffuni]

Hi Simeo;

On 01/01/2020 09:42, Simeo Reig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Pedro´s question could make sense in a regular environment but this is 
> Java world!. Still nowadays there are not so few companies running 
> java 7/java EE7 despite we have java 13/Jakarta EE8.
>
Hmm ... that is reasonable and surely justifies having your versioning 
scheme.

Do note however, that we deprecated Java 7 and anything before that in 
the ports tree so those ports should be deprecated.

People can still install and use older versions manually, of course.

> In official Wildfly page, https://wildfly.org/downloads , you can see 
> there is still available from Wildfly 8 since the last Wildfly 18 
> more, summing more  than twenty versions all maintained.
>
>
> Why? some versions are javaEE7 certified, some javaEE8 and some others 
> jakartaEE8. Some can use jdk7, some jdk8 and others can use last 
> jdk11.  Some have microprofile included, some other no etcetera. Java 
> EE has moved from oracle to eclipse fundation, there have been more 
> changes in last two years than last twenty and therefore many 
> companies are stilln adapting their code.
>
Very interesting indeed. C++ has also been changing a lot.
> By the way, thanks for your comments Pedro and commit new version Kurt.
>

Thanks for the explanation,

Pedro.


> Simeó Reig
>
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2020, 14:01 Simeo Reig, <simeo.reig at gmail.com 
> <mailto:simeo.reig at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>       Pedro´s question could make sense in a regular environment but
>     this is Java world!. Still nowadays there are not so few companies
>     running java 7/java EE7 despite we have java 13/Jakarta EE8.
>
>     In official Wildfly page, https://wildfly.org/downloads , you can
>     see there is still available from Wildfly 8 since the last
>     Wildfly 18 more, summing more  than twenty versions all maintained.
>
>
>     Why? some versions are javaEE7 certified, some javaEE8 and some
>     others jakartaEE8. Some can use jdk7, some jdk8 and others can use
>     last jdk11.  Some have microprofile included, some other no
>     etcetera. Java EE has moved from oracle to eclipse fundation,
>     there have been more changes in last two years than last twenty
>     and therefore many companies are stilln adapting their code.
>
>     By the way, thanks for comments Pedro and commit new version Kurt.
>
>     Simeó Reig
>
>
>
>     On Mon, 30 Dec 2019, 19:35 Pedro Giffuni, <pfg at freebsd.org
>     <mailto:pfg at freebsd.org>> wrote:
>
>
>         On 30/12/2019 13:28, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>         > Author: pi
>         > Date: Mon Dec 30 18:28:24 2019
>         > New Revision: 521562
>         > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/521562
>         >
>         > Log:
>         >    New port: java/wildfly17
>         >
>         >    WildFly is a flexible, lightweight, managed application
>         >    runtime that helps you build amazing applications.
>         >    WildFly - new name for JBoss Application Server
>         >
>         >    Fast Startup
>         >    Small Footprint
>         >    Modular Design
>         >    Unified Configuration and Management
>         >
>         >    And of course Java EE / Jakarta EE!
>         >
>         >    WWW: https://wildfly.org/
>         >
>         >    This is the first Wildfly with JAKARTA EE8 full support.
>         >
>         >    PR:                242962
>         >    Submitted by:      Simeo Reig <reig.simeo at gmail.com
>         <mailto:reig.simeo at gmail.com>>
>         >
>         > Added:
>         >    head/java/wildfly17/
>         >       - copied from r521432, head/java/wildfly16/
>         >    head/java/wildfly17/files/wildfly17.in <http://wildfly17.in>
>         >       - copied unchanged from r521432,
>         head/java/wildfly16/files/wildfly16.in <http://wildfly16.in>
>         > Deleted:
>         >    head/java/wildfly17/files/wildfly16.in <http://wildfly16.in>
>         > Modified:
>         >    head/java/Makefile
>         >    head/java/wildfly17/Makefile
>         >    head/java/wildfly17/distinfo
>         >    head/java/wildfly17/files/pkg-message.in
>         <http://pkg-message.in>
>         >    head/java/wildfly17/pkg-descr
>         >    head/java/wildfly17/pkg-plist
>         >
>         > Modified: head/java/Makefile
>         >
>         ==============================================================================
>         > --- head/java/Makefile        Mon Dec 30 18:16:59 2019     
>           (r521561)
>         > +++ head/java/Makefile        Mon Dec 30 18:28:24 2019     
>           (r521562)
>         > @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@
>         >       SUBDIR += wildfly14
>         >       SUBDIR += wildfly15
>         >       SUBDIR += wildfly16
>         > +    SUBDIR += wildfly17
>         >       SUBDIR += wildfly90
>         >       SUBDIR += xdoclet
>         >
>
>         Not complaining, but I wonder why we have so many versioned ports
>         instead of having just one wildfly and wildfly-devel. wildfly
>         18 is
>         available, BTW.
>
>         Pedro.
>
>