Two weeks ago Java EE 8 was released. And new Tomcat 9 was announced to support it. Are there any plans for Jetty to support Java EE8? I couldn't find any information about that in the documentation or on Jetty site.
Thanks.
Yes, it will be Jetty 10 and we'll be pushing out a beta release for that fairly soon.
To be clear though Jetty will likely never support a fully JavaEE specification, our focus remains strictly oriented towards the Servlet api and generally towards technologies and protocols that integrate well like websockets, http2, while maintaining our high volume/low latency goals. While the new specifications are released there is some churn related to where they are moving to (the Eclipse Foundation) which is where we develop Jetty so we are pausing a little bit to see how this plays out before we push fully towards Jetty 10 final.
[Update] Current thinking has been that we would push out Jetty 10 with JakartaEE specification references. This migration process is taking longer than we had originally anticipated but we continue to hold on to that plan for the time being. If you would like to provide feedback on that process feel free to post to the dev mailing list.