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From: Daniel Kulp <dkulp@apache.org>
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Subject: Drop support for Jetty 8?
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:40:36 -0500
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You may have seen a bunch of updates for 3.2 around getting the Jetty =
support updated to allow for Jetty 9.3  (which requires Java 8, BTW).   =
I have all the tests passing with both Jetty 9.2 and Jetty 9.3 now which =
is a good start.   However, looking through the code, we still have a =
lot of reflection and other hacks to support Jetty 8.  This was kind of =
required to be able to support CXF on Karaf 3 and 2.x.   With Karaf 4.0 =
out for a while now (with several patches) and with us updating to CXF =
3.2, could we drop support for Jetty 8 entirely and remove a bunch of =
those hacks?  Could we maybe make 9.2 the minimum (since that=E2=80=99s =
what=E2=80=99s in Karaf 4)?

My next step is to update the jetty transport to support http/2, but =
that definitely would require Jetty >=3D9.2 unless we do a bunch more =
detection logic and such.

Thoughts?

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Daniel Kulp
dkulp@apache.org - http://dankulp.com/blog
Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com