Jetty 12 Upgrade

[stevenschlansker]

@jamezp , we are looking to upgrade to Jetty 12. Right now resteasy jetty client supports Jetty 11, which has reached "End Of Community Support" (not quite yet end of support, but soon)

The simplest path is to just update to Jetty 12 at some convenient resteasy minor version. I don't know how many resteasy-client-jetty users are out there, but this would be a breaking change for them.

Another option is to copy the whole client library as is to a -jetty12 artifact, fix it up, and deprecate the existing on.

If we want to support multiple Jetty versions at once, I could try to pull apart an abstract superclass - additional complexity, but easier to change Jetty versions.

How would the resteasy project want to approach a Jetty 12 transition? Thanks!

[jamezp]

@stevenschlansker I definitely don't want to add a jetty-12 module. I think we did that too much in the past and IMO it becomes unwieldy.

TBH my preferred approach would be to pull it out of the resteasy project and place it in it's own project. The reason is I don't know when I'd do a new minor.

That said, we could make 7.0.0 use Jetty 12.

My personal option would be to deprecate it in the resteasy project though and create a new resteasy-jetty project with it's own release cycle.

[jamezp]

FWIW. RESTEasy 7.0.0.Alpha3 is already using Jetty 12. Since I copied from the main branch, it looks like Jetty 12 is already there :) I'll be pushing this very soon as it's almost done. If it helps, I could immediately cut say a 1.0.0.Alpha1 so you have something to test with.

[stevenschlansker]

Oh, very cool! Maybe I don't need to write much code at all. We'd love to test it out if you have time to make a release. (We can always build a local one ourselves if not.)

[jamezp]

Okay, project created https://github.com/resteasy/resteasy-jetty and a 1.0.0.Alpha1 was released. It should be available in Maven Central soon, maybe 30 minutes or so.

[jamezp]

Just to keep the link between this, I've filed an issue to deprecate the client in RESTEasy itself https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RESTEASY-3541.

[stevenschlansker]

Thanks, we're using the alpha release successfully so far in our test branch for a week or two now.