Switching from Java 8 to Java 17 as the minimum required for the core platform and modules!

[dkayiwa (Daniel Kayiwa)]

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PS If we’re going through a painful migration, we should also do the migration from javax.servlet → jakarta.servlet.

OpenMRS update to latest Java, Tomcat and MySQL Versions

We support Tomcat up to version 9.x. I believe there’s some threads on Talk that mention this, but the underlying problem is that the javax.servlet classes were made part of the Jakarta project and now live in the jakarta.servlet classes and Tomcat 10 only bundles support for the jakarta.servlet versions. AFAIK we haven’t yet addressed that issue and it may be quite difficult to do so without effectively updating most modules to depend on a newer version of core. 2.5.4 is the latest official…