> I also think there's no such precedent. It must be hard decision for the
> Java SE team to make such release.
> My current thinking is that around the time of the release of Servlet
> 4.0 and its implementations, there may be the official Java SE 9 release
> with ALPN support.
> So WAS vendors who don't have own JSSE provider or have difficulty to
> make their own could resort to it.
So one thing I am not really clear on is what we are actually going to
require in Servlet 4 / EE8, in particular:
- Is HTTP2 a mandatory part of Servlet 4? i.e. you won't be certified
compliant unless you support it
- Is SE8 support required for compliance?
If that is the case you basically have a situation where you can't
actually be compliant unless you modify the JVM's boot class path (I
guess you could support HTTP2 over upgrade, but afaik most browsers are
not planning to implement this).
Stuart