Re: [ANN] Tomcat 9.0.x End of Support and Tomcat 9 long term support plan

David Wall <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:48:44 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user
Organization Yozons Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/11/26 1:42 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> 1. Fix the application. This is the best long-term solution. Often, 
> you can fix this "just" by swapping JavaEE libraries with their 
> JakartaEE replacements and then changing imports in your Java source 
> files. Sometimes it can be more complicated if those "replacements" 
> also made other changes as they transitioned from JavaEE to JakartaEE.

Is there any way to tell classloaders to use Jakarta package names 
instead? One big issue we will face is third party libraries that 
reference Java Servlet code, but either there is no update, or the 
update would require many months of development effort to upgrade (like 
with Vaadin 8).

David