Support for Spring 6.1.x

[vijaynr]

The PortletMVC4Spring master branch was intended to be reserved for compatibility with Spring Framework 6.x, but since Pivotal made the move from the javax. to the jakarta. package namespace, the PortletMVC4Spring master branch remains unused. See Version Scheme for more information about the 5.3,x, 5.2.x, and 5.1.x branches.

Is there a way to support Spring 6.1.x in future? Spring 5.3.x is seemed to be EOS'd, and I see no discussions happening in any of the forum regarding portlet support for Spring 6, except for this project. So, Is this project still alive?

[ngriffin7a]

Pivotal based Spring 6.x on Jakarta EE.

Liferay CE/DXP is still based on Java EE.

Liferay Engineering is working on moving to Jakarta EE, with hopes of supporting it by Q3 2025: https://liferay.dev/blogs/-/blogs/liferay-s-java-roadmap-for-2025

At that time, it should be possible for us to create a branch in PortletMVC4Spring that supports Spring 6.x, but not before.

[vijaynr]

@ngriffin7a Is there a way I can get hold of snapshot builds of portlets and portlet4mvcspring for jakarta support? I see that the changes are already made for jakarta movement. I would like to test this out.