Provide a Jakarta EE 9 version

[vitorsouza]

Issue Overview

Latest version of Admin Template references Java EE javax. APIs, thus not working in a Jakarta EE 9 setting.

Current Behaviour

If you start a new Web project, use jakarta.jakartaee-web-api 9.1 as a dependency together with admin-template 1.3.1 and deploy it on a Jakarta EE 9 server (e.g., WildFly 25.0.1 Preview EE 9.1) you get a NoClassDefFound exception, as admin-template will reference Jave EE 9 classes under javax. and the Jakarta EE 9 server will provide these classes under a new package naming structure jakarta..

Expected Behaviour

Admin Template could provide a Jakarta EE 9 version of the dependency, the same way PrimeFaces 10 does, using classifiers:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
      <artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
      <version>10.0.0</version>
      <classifier>jakarta</classifier>
    </dependency>  

By adding the jakarta classifier, Maven would download a version of admin-template that has been built for Jakarta EE 9.

How to reproduce

I created an AdminFaces in Jakarta EE 9 Starter Project after performing the following:

1. Cloned the admin-template repository;
2. Upgraded Java EE references to Jakarta EE 9 references;
3. Ran mvn deploy to create the new artifact at a local Maven repository;
4. Then uploaded it to LabES UFES' webserver in order for people to be able to declare it as a dependency in their Maven projects;
5. Created the admin-starter-jee9 project as an example of use.

If you deploy the admin-starter-jee9 project in a Jakarta EE 9 server you will get the expected behavior. To get the current behavior, modify the project's pom.xml to reference version 1.3.0 of admin-template instead of the 1.3.1-jakarta version I created.

Additional Information

• AdminFaces version: 1.3.1
• PrimeFaces version: 10.0
• JSF implementation: Mojarra 3.0.0.SP04 under WIldFly 25.0.1 Preview EE 9.1

[rmpestano]

Hi @vitorsouza, starting from v1.4.0 adminfaces will be only compatible with jakarta ee package.

If needed we can create a legacy classifier to support javax package, please create an issue if that's the case (done, see #210 ).

Thank you!

[vitorsouza]

Hi @vitorsouza, starting from v1.4.0 adminfaces will be only compatible with jakarta ee package.

Did this not go through? It seems that changes were made in branch 206-jakartaee-migration but never merged into master. I tried using admin-template-1.5.1 from mvnrepository but it seems to be using javax. packaging still.

[rmpestano]

Hey @vitorsouza, you're right. I'll try to release a new version today.

Thanks for the heads up!

[rmpestano]

Hey @vitorsouza, I've just released v1.6.0 and now it should be ok.

I've migrated Admin starter to jakarta and it seems to be working on wildfly 26.1.1.

For the javax support I tested the quarkus-admin-starter and it's also working.

Thank you again and sorry for the issues in previous releases.

[vitorsouza]

Thank you for working on this! Tried version 1.6.1 from mvnrepository and it works great. Thanks again!

[rmpestano]

Thank you for the update @vitorsouza!

[anumber8]

Hi @rmpestano hope you are doing well. Congratulations adminfaces its an awesome piece of work.
Are you planning to migrate to primefaces 11 this year?
Keep up the good work, cheers!!

[rmpestano]

Hey @anumber8, thanks for the kind words!

For the PF 11 support we are already there, check admin-starter project (I still need to migrate the showcase and the other starter projects)