+1 Christian
On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 at 20:10, Dominik Przybysz <alien11...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 > -- -- Christian Schneider http://www.liquid-reality.de Computer Scientist http://www.adobe.com
