JGit EE8 Bazel bridge

This package contains the Bazel-only bridge for source consumers that still run on EE8 and javax.servlet while JGit master uses jakarta.servlet.

JGit hosts this bridge because Gerrit is a known downstream that consumes JGit from source through a git submodule and still runs Jetty 12 EE8. Keeping the bridge in JGit lets Gerrit track JGit master and avoids maintaining a long-lived servlet-4 branch just for Gerrit. That branch was never a stable JGit release line, so it is not a sustainable way for Gerrit to receive JGit maintenance updates.

The bridge intentionally keeps the original JGit package names. It rewrites only servlet API references from jakarta.servlet to javax.servlet, then compiles generated jars from the rewritten source jars.

Generated targets:

  • //org.eclipse.jgit.http.server.ee8:jgit-servlet-ee8
  • //org.eclipse.jgit.lfs.server.ee8:jgit-lfs-server-ee8

Do not put one of these generated jars and its canonical Jakarta counterpart on the same classpath. They contain the same JGit classes.

This is intentionally limited to source generation, build, and test. It does not add Tycho, p2, or Maven Central publication machinery yet.

Run:

bazelisk test \
  //tools/jgit-ee8:generated_srcs_test \
  //org.eclipse.jgit.junit.http.ee8:tests

//tools/jgit-ee8:generated_srcs_test checks:

  • generated sources are derived from the canonical source filegroups
  • generated srcjar entries use Java package paths
  • generated sources preserve line counts for debugger breakpoints
  • generated sources contain javax.servlet, not jakarta.servlet
  • generated sources do not move JGit classes to an .ee8 package

The dedicated org.eclipse.jgit.*.ee8 targets follow the Jetty 12 EE8 testing model in a smaller form. Jetty generates EE8 main and test sources from the canonical newer-EE modules and then runs the EE8 tests in the EE8 module graph. JGit does the same for the servlet-facing tests: the HTTP/LFS test sources and shared junit-http helpers are transformed to javax.servlet, wired to Jetty EE8 test dependencies, and run against the generated EE8 JGit jars.

//org.eclipse.jgit.http.test.ee8:server_unit is a fast, focused target for the three HTTP server utility tests. It is not part of the default EE8 suite because those classes already run under //org.eclipse.jgit.http.test.ee8:http.

The test rewrite rules also map Jetty test helper imports from org.eclipse.jetty.ee11.servlet to the Jetty EE8 packages needed by the tests. They are intentionally test-only and separate from the production jakarta.servlet to javax.servlet rules.

Next steps:

  • Keep this source-consumer bridge while Gerrit runs on Jetty 12 EE8.
  • Reuse these targets for other Bazel source consumers that need EE8 output.
  • Move the generated-test JUnit helper to bazlets only if more generated-test users need the same split between suite source labels and compiled sources.
  • Add Maven/Tycho/p2 generation only when a non-Bazel consumer needs published EE8 artifacts.
  • Keep the canonical srcs filegroups aligned with each servlet-facing java_library so new Java sources are transformed automatically.