Jakarta Validation Support about gwt HOT 3 OPEN

I have created a new branch https://github.com/dodgex/gwt/tree/9844-jakarta-validation-support for this. The branch is based on the work done in PR #9845.

After updating the branch to the changes in that PR, i successfully tested the validation part used by requestfactory in a small test project.

For the test project, currently de.knightsoft-net:gwt-time-dummy in a 2.x version is required as it provides (dummy) emulation classes for java.time.Clock required by jakarta validation 3.0 stuff in com.google.gwt.validation.client.

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Checking in for any update here - should we proceed with #9845, or do you think you have a proposal ready to discuss?

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After my last comment I put some more work into this but came to the realization, that upgrading the GWT Validation Module to Jakarta is way more complex than i could have expected. There is quiet a lot of javax.validation and hibernate-validator code in the GWT codebase that would need to be upgraded/adapted/replaced with thier jakarta.validation counter parts and a current hibernate-validator version. Unfortunately I do not know hiberbnate-validator internals and gwt's requirements to it good enough.

This, plus the fact that the validation module is considered unmaintained for quiet some time, plus the fact that for the last 1.5-2 month my work priorities where switched to other projects and also the fact that we do not use gwt-validation resulted in delay/stop of the work unfortunately.

Only scince like mid last week I am again working on pushing the upgrade of our dependencies and stuff.

Long Story Short: For now we should proceed with #9845 to provide jakarta-servlet support. regarding validation there has to be a decission if it will be maintained/upgraded for an upcoming release or whatever else happens with it.

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