An initial look at Handlebars.java on JDK17/Spring 6/Jakarta EE

[jcputney]

@jknack I don't know if you're interested in moving in this direction with the project just yet, but I wanted to take an initial look at getting it compatible with JakartaEE 10, since that is where most of the major server providers are heading. Obviously, this is a breaking change for anyone that isn't on a compatible server yet, but thought it would be worth looking in that direction. Thanks for all the hard work!

[jcputney]

@jknack any help you need with this project? This PR is what's preventing Handlebars.java from being usable with the latest versions of the Eclipse Krazo Jakarta MVC implementation. I'm just wondering if I need to start looking into a different templating system for my projects. Thanks!

[cricketbackground]

@jcputney @jknack

I'm upgrading my project from spring boot 2.6.6 to spring boot 3.0. Realized handlebars.java is not compatible as it still uses javax.* packages. In spring boot 3.0 the package changed to jakarta.*

Can you please expedite this PR merge and release?

[DevTomek-pl]

@cricketbackground @jcputney @jknack any updates? Can you release these changes?

[jcputney]

@cricketbackground @DevTomek-pl for anyone looking to use this in their project, you can use the following from the jitpack.io repository:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.jcputney.handlebars-java</groupId>
    <artifactId>handlebars</artifactId>
    <version>jakarta-ee-update-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

and

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>jitpack.io</id>
        <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Not ideal, but it's working just fine for us, since this project appears to be mostly abandoned.

[jknack]

done in 4.4.0