>> Although I don't think anybody wants to invest the resources to bring all the dependencies up-to-date. <<
until someone does that, I think it should be out. this is pretty much abandonware. On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 2:04 PM Justin Bertram <jbert...@apache.org> wrote: > > I've been meaning to get to this for awhile. Better late than never, right? > > Generally speaking, I agree that REST is not a great fit for messaging. > Whenever folks ask about it on the mailing lists, Slack, Stack Overflow, > etc. I strongly encourage them for two main reasons: > > - The STOMP protocol is ubiquitous, simple, standardized, and can be used > in almost every circumstance and environment where REST might be used. > - REST is not portable because there's no standard messaging interface for > REST. This is generally bad for users as it locks them in to a specific > broker. > > Here are a few additional reasons: > > - For simple use-cases (e.g. basic send & receive) it's easy these days to > create your own REST interface and then implement messaging behind that. > Since the REST interface is in the user's control portability isn't an > issue. > - It's a bit of a pain to setup as it requires manually building a WAR > file. > > That said, it **is functional**. All the REST tests in the test-suite are > passing, and I just ran through the documentation and tested it on a fresh > install of 2.25.0. Everything works as far as I can tell. Although I don't > think anybody wants to invest the resources to bring all the dependencies > up-to-date. > > Also, I think we should deprecate it and update the documentation with an > explanation before we completely remove it. > > > Justin > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 9:04 AM Clebert Suconic <clebert.suco...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm not sure if there's much to discuss here. Rest in Artemis has been > > abandonware for a while (like 5 years)... The jboss-rest interface is > > a few major releases behind, the module compiles but it's not > > functional, and any time someone ask questions we just mention don't > > use it... (favoring stomp instead). > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/activemq-artemis/tree/main/artemis-rest > > > > > > As part of new logging changes, we are moving activemq-artemis into 3.0... > > > > At this point I see no other choice than remove the module. > > > > Any objections? > > > > -- > > Clebert Suconic > > > > -- Clebert Suconic
