With the release of the Jakarta EE 9 version at the end of November 2020, a 20-year long tradition of Java Enterprise is broken, the backward compatibility.
Due to some legal requirements from Oracle related to the donation of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation, all the namespaces need to be changed. This means that package names have changed and that for example, the Servlet class changed from javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet to jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServlet.
And since your applications use more than just the Jakarta EE dependencies, the change of the namespace within Jakarta EE 9 is only the beginning. All other libraries using one of the Java Enterprise classes need to be changed also. And there are many of them, all of which need to be updated.
So we can expect to see an adapted version of each of those frameworks and libraries in the coming months. But if you want to play already with the new Jakarta EE 9 on the runtimes that provide you a preview of the Jakarta EE 9 version, there is an option.
With the Eclipse Transformer project you can convert a JAR library for instance to the new Jakarta EE 9 namespace. This means that you can easily adapt the framework or library that you are using in your Java Enterprise application.
But creating a Jakarta classifier version of your Maven dependency is in most cases not enough. The POM file of the Framework or library can have a reference to some ‘old’ dependencies sill using the javax namespace. This means that in many cases your application still has access to those classes. And a mistake is easily made in that situation.
The solution is to create a ‘temporary’ POM xml file for the transformed dependency that puts the correct dependencies into your application.
As an example, and for some of the Atbash projects that use these other frameworks and libraries, a repository is created to convert and create the javax version to a Jakarta one for MicroProfile and Apache Deltaspike. More can be read on the readme page of the project.
Although you can use this technique, it is cumbersome and not suitable for production usage. You can use it to prepare and test your application using the Jakarta namespace, but the only real solution is that each of those frameworks and libraries converts to use the Jakarta namespace.
So the CDI and JSF utilities created by Atbash, are now available on Maven central using the Jakarta namespace.
You can use
<dependency>
<groupId>be.atbash.jakarta.utils</groupId>
<artifactId>utils-cdi</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
And
<dependency>
<groupId>be.atbash.jakarta.utils</groupId>
<artifactId>utils-jsf</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
So that you do not need the trick with the Eclipse Transformer project. Other Atbash projects have already experimented with the Jakarta namespace (see the jakarta branch on the repositories) using the Eclipse Transformer for the dependencies. Once the actual jakarta compatible versions are released, they will be used and the Atbash project will be released.