Chapter 29. Migration Guide

The most fundamental change in Jersey 3.0.0 and later is namespace change. Since Jakarta EE 9 the jakarta. namespace is introduced as a replacement for javax namespace from Java EE.

Due to required jakartification several modules where omitted (because of not satisfied dependencies). Or require higher JDK (11+).

Examples and tests are reduced in quantity (so you probably will not find all those examples which were available in the 2.32 version).

ServerProperties.UNWRAP_COMPLETION_STAGE_IN_WRITER_ENABLE is by default true.

Jackson 1 support was removed.

Jersey 3.1.0+ is the implementation of Jakarta RESTful WebServices 3.1, which is part of Jakarta EE 10. Jakarta EE 10 defines the minimum JDK 11 requirement and hence Jersey no longer supports JDK 8.

Since Jersey 3.1.0+ the getRequestHeader(String name) method of the ClientRequest class returns NULL (instead of an empty List) in case if the specified header does not exist.