I've released a spate of open-source project updates recently, and I figured it'd be good to round up what's new. Most of them are utilitarian in nature - mostly fixes for things that crop up with Domino 14 and Java > 8 - but the first one is larger.

XPages Jakarta EE

Today, I released version 3.1.0 of the XPages JEE project. This is mostly about fixing up some edge-case and sporadic bugs that cropped up in 3.0, but also includes some performance updates and contributions from new contributors. Additionally, it should work on the newly-launched Domino 14.5 EAP1. The use of Java 21 in that version of Domino won't necessarily affect XPages JEE in a while, since JEE 11 targets Java 17, but there's some neat stuff in there for general use.

p2-layout-resolver

The p2-layout-resolver is a plugin that allows the use of p2 (Eclipse-style) repositories as Maven dependencies in non-Tycho projects. I use this in a lot of cases where I move a project from Tycho to maven-bundle-plugin for simplicity in dependency management.

Version 1.9.0 includes a very-useful contribution that fixes dependencies in cases where a bundle has a Bundle-ClassPath entry that references an embedded JAR that doesn't exist. In the Domino world, this cropped up in Domino 14, so it's useful if you're building anything that targets that version of the runtime or above.

p2-maven-plugin

For various Domino-related needs, I maintain a fork of the p2-maven-plugin, which is useful for its additions of things like generating site.xml files (still important for importing into an NSF update site, after all these years) and the <transform>jakarta</transform> option to run JARs through Eclipse Transformer when bundling them, allowing use of pre-Jakarta JEE artifacts in a smooth way.

The 3.1.x versions focused on fixing problems when running on Java > 8 (namely no longer using IBM Commons XML) and improving handling of some other hiccups.