I'm working on upgrading JHipster to use Spring Boot 3 M5 from 2.7.3. In the processs, I've been renaming a lot of dependencies from javax to jakarta.
Most things have worked well, except for the annotation-api dependency. With the javax version, there is a @Nullable annotation. This doesn't exists in the 2.0.0 version of jakarta that Spring Boot 3 depends on.
Upgrading to 2.1.1 solves the problem.
Related: https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-bom/pull/986
Comment From: wilkinsona
We can't upgrade to Jakarta Annotations 2.1, I'm afraid. 2.1 is part of Jakarta EE 10 but our baseline for 3.0 is EE 9. As far as I can tell @Nullable is new in 2.1 and javax.annotation.Nullable doesn't exist in jakarta.annotation-api:1.3.5. From what I've seen, most projects that use it have been depending on the findbugs JSR-305 jar.