Les Hazlewood

Internal note: see #308 and #352

@linghengqian that's true - JWE is large and almost finished, so given the scope, it's probably best to leave the remaining work for JJWT team members. Normally I feel otherwise...

@dogeared sorry about this - can you please rebase from master for this?

The concept of 'plaintext' (as a String) will be going away for 1.0. JJWT's concept of String vs JSON body support was created when the JWT RFCs weren't yet finalized....

> Even after reading this, I still don't get why just trying to parse it is not an option. Besides, my option does not alter the input... It doesn't alter...

> > Invoking a JSON parser and swallowing a subsequent exception when the payload isn't JSON is a heavyweight operation that could significantly impact performance - better to avoid it...

@skjolber now that 0.11.0 is out and builds/works on JDK 11, is this still needed?

@skjolber correct, we didn't add them to the release - I was curious however if they are still necessary to use in JDK11 given that our builds run and work...

@andrewhrytsiv Hi! All I can say as an unpaid team of volunteers, we move as quickly as we're able, so we cannot commit to any dates or timelines. I will...

@bmarwell that would be great! Any help here would be much appreciated.