jakarta-web relax the import package constraints

[jcompagner]

If you work in an osgi environment where it used import an export packages
then the log4j-jakarta-web is to restrictive:

Import-Package: jakarta.servlet;version="[5.0,6)",jakarta.servlet.http;v
ersion="[5.0,6)",

so it says as a from 5.0 but not 6 (not including 6) so until 5.999

This is annoying if you are building with a 6.1 (tomcat 11) jakarta specification.

you don't need an upper bound i think, because i guess you just have a lower bound where you build on and that should work fine in a 6 or even 7 jakarta servlet spec right?

so please just do:

Import-Package: jakarta.servlet;version="[5.0,7)",jakarta.servlet.http;v
ersion="[5.0,7)",

so that you support all the version that are currently released (because you do run fine on a tomcat 11 right?)

[ppkarwasz]

Hi @jcompagner,

Thanks for pointing that out!

you don't need an upper bound i think, because i guess you just have a lower bound where you build on and that should work fine in a 6 or even 7 jakarta servlet spec right?

We don’t explicitly specify import version ranges in our bundles—those are determined by our tooling (BND) using its default import version policy, which sets the upper bound to the next major version.

While we’d prefer to stick with the automatic import policy, the Servlet API doesn’t follow OSGi semantic versioning at the package level. So even if version 6.0 is compatible from a consumer perspective, OSGi treats it as a breaking change due to the major version bump.

I agree that we should override the computed range to explicitly allow all 6.x versions. As for 7.x, we’d prefer to wait until it’s released before including it.

Our build script maps the bnd-extra-package-options Maven property to BND's Import-Package directive, as shown here:

logging-log4j2/log4j-to-slf4j/pom.xml

Lines 42 to 47 in ff03364

	<bnd-extra-package-options>
	<!-- Annotations only -->
	org.jspecify.*;resolution:=optional,
	<!-- This bridge also support SLF4J 2.x -->
	org.slf4j.*;version="${slf4j.support.range}"
	</bnd-extra-package-options>

Feel free to submit a PR to address this—we’d be happy to review it!

[jcompagner]

ok i added this: Servoy@8c5ac44
is it easy to quickly test this somehow?