Plans for 3.0

[optyfr]

Now that 2.5.1 has been released and seems pretty stable, it's time to think about the next major update, so here is my "to be completed" plan

Switch to Java 17

Now that Java 17 is out, this is the new LTS release, so that's time to switch from Java 11 to Java 17

Use JavaFX as desktop version interface

Swing has not evolved since 2008, JavaFX is considered as the replacement, even if JavaFX is not bundled with JDK package like Swing... I think it's time to switch to a more modern user interface, and because of that JRomManager v3.0 will get a major interface rewrite using JavaFX 17

Replace ZipFileSystem with Zip4J

The current JDK ZipFileSystem implementation has some major drawbacks:

1. we can't natively change the compression level, this problem was addressed by modifying the original source code, but that's not satisfaisant and need to be revised each time we change java minimal version
2. each time we delete or add a file to an already existing archiving, the archive is entirely recreated / compressed, instead of just doing bytes blocks manipulation for what's not changed, this has a direct impact on performance (note that this is not related to TorrentZip transformation, because this transformation needs explicit re-compression with specific settings)
   For these reasons I plan to replace the ZipFileSystem with Zip4J

[jumafuse]

Since a web interface is available and usable in both desktop and server modes there is also the possibility to just open a web browser locally making the native java interface redundant. Some open source projects decided that to focus their efforts and have a native client that is just opening a browser underneath.

[optyfr]

That's the next step indeed, but users need to be convinced first

[jumafuse]

By the way, kudos for having a project where I can just load the Gradle model on intelij and start the application using jrmfx run.

[optyfr]

Thanks, and this was furthermore needed to ease package generation and building from GitHub actions
I use Eclipse by the way (just because I'm used to for more than 10 years)

[jumafuse]

I can appreciate the effort on the build, it shows. I noticed the Eclipse files. It is good to have an official IDE for the project. I used Eclipse for half a decade is just not my preference anymore.

[optyfr]

As suggested by @fuentesjuan, I finally made a discord server for JRomManager! Here is the link :
https://discord.gg/rx6nwn6CGJ