Hi all, I’d like to remove the Application module from the monorepo for the following reasons:
1. There is an official OSGi specification for the concept of *Application (*in https://docs.osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.application.html). Our current Application module does not adhere to this specification, which may lead to confusion for developers expecting standards-compliant behavior. 2. The module has a dependency on Eclipse Equinox packages that were removed a long time ago, making it not-upgradeable and problematic to maintain. More details can be found in the issue tracker: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=345790 . 3. The submodules within Application were last released in 2012, which strongly suggests they are no longer actively used or maintained - https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.aries.application?sort=newest . Unless there is a veto from the team within the next 7 days, I plan to proceed with removing the Application module following the same approach previously used for the removal of the EJB module. -- Regards, Dominik Przybysz
