Wildfly 8.2.0 Maven bill-of-materials with wrong dependency versions

[alexandreogrodovski]

Dependency versions should be reviewed.

In jboss-bom-parent pom for instance, arquillian container version's property is set up to 8.1.0.Final. Take a look here https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/wildfly/bom/jboss-bom-parent/8.2.0.Final/jboss-bom-parent-8.2.0.Final.pom

Also, cdi-api is set up to 1.1.

[jaikiran]

Don't know about Arquillian container version. I guess that listed version is compatible with 8.2.0 of WildFly and hence no new release was done for it. However, the CDI API version perhaps is an issue. Can you create a JIRA here WildFly - JBoss Issue Tracker so that someone can take a look?

[ctomc]

Yes, i have this on my todo list.

Problem is not in jboss-bom-parent but in jboss-javaee-7.0 bom that needs to be updated to include newer CDI.

Good catch for this.

I created upgrade cdi-api to 1.2 · Issue #5 · jboss/jboss-javaee-specs · GitHub for this.

The arquillian container version is indeed an oversight but not a problem at all as any arquillian container from 8.x series works with all 8.x versions of WildFly

[ctomc]

I've just released version 8.2.1.Final that should have this fixed.

[alexandreogrodovski]

Thank you Tomaz, really worked.

However, there's something weird going on with this new release.

With previous release, I had version 4.11 of JUnit, but now I have version 4.3.

* I know that here https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/wildfly/bom/jboss-bom-parent/8.2.1.Final/jboss-bom-parent-8.2.1.Final.pom, version.junit property is set up to 4.11, and that's why I call this weird.

[sanjay05222]

Tomaz Thanks for that information it was really helpful, I wanted to find out what is the roadmap for the wildfly 8.x.x version in general. ? Did we get any fixes later on ? or this one is the final version and sorry in advance I am new to the opensource development eco system probably I asked an obvious question. but we are trying to migrate all the prod from 4.2.3 to wildfly and its a major work for us and we don't want that we face some critical issue once we launch it in prod.

Another question is when do we get it ? DO I have to build it from the master branch ? is that correct understanding ? - Thanks.

[ctomc]

Alexandre Ogrodovski wrote:

Thank you Tomaz, really worked.

However, there's something weird going on with this new release.

With previous release, I had version 4.11 of JUnit, but now I have version 4.3.

* I know that here https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/wildfly/bom/jboss-bom-parent/8.2.1.Final/jboss-bom-parent-8.2.1.Final.pom, version.junit property is set up to 4.11, and that's why I call this weird.

I removed junit dependency as it was wrongly there it doesn't belong in wildfly boms as junit has nothing to do with with boms provide.

there was also jira to remove it [WFLY-4206] jboss-javaee-7.0-with-resteasy bom exposes JUnit as dependency - JBoss Issue Tracker

[ctomc]

SANJAY GAUTAM wrote:

Tomaz Thanks for that information it was really helpful, I wanted to find out what is the roadmap for the wildfly 8.x.x version in general. ? Did we get any fixes later on ? or this one is the final version and sorry in advance I am new to the opensource development eco system probably I asked an obvious question. but we are trying to migrate all the prod from 4.2.3 to wildfly and its a major work for us and we don't want that we face some critical issue once we launch it in prod.

Another question is when do we get it ? DO I have to build it from the master branch ? is that correct understanding ? - Thanks.

8.2.0.Final was last release in 8.x series, development has now moved to work on 9.0.

That is application server itself, but various utilities around app server like boms (discussion in this thread) have their own versioning cycle and try to match versions of app server when possible, bug given we missed few things in boms 8.2.0.Final we fixed that in 8.2.1

For general discussions on development are going on on wildfly-dev mailing lists wildfly-dev Info Page which you can sign up and follow or browse archives.

[sanjay05222]

Hi Tomaz.

I have one more question , what do you think if you had to migrate things from 4.2.3 Jboss to Latest Greatest version which one you would have picked , so far wild fly 8.2.0 Final looks fine to me but still I was wondering if I take an advice from Insider like you. your response will help me in raising my confidence in the product in the same way as we had on 4.2.3 Jboss. - Thanks again for all the information you provided in your earlier post. we want to use community version only we don't want EAP though.

[alexandreogrodovski]

Understood. Thank you Tomaz.