[wildfly-dev] Remove PL from WFLY

[Anil Saldanha]

IMO after seven years in existence - all software needs to be rewritten or adapted or retired.

Time to retire PicketBox and PicketLink from WildFly. Better alternatives exist hopefully.

> On Aug 19, 2016, at 9:11 AM, Tomaž Cerar <tomaz.cerar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There have also be complains from community why we downgraded the PicketLink in WF10
> and now there is a migration problem from WF9 --> 10. [1]
> 
> If we remove it, we would just keep the mgmt stub so we can still manage mixed-domain with older versions.
> Similarly as we did with osgi & friends back in the day.
> It was already deprecated in 10, so we could remove it in 11 or later.
> 
> --
> tomaz
> 
> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-5196
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Pedro Igor Silva <psilva at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>     On the last few days I've been discussing with Tomaz about the possibility to remove PL from WFLY.
>> 
>>     The reasons for that are:
>> 
>>         - PicketLink was deprecated in favor of Keycloak. See [1] and [2].
>>         - Fixes are only being done to product version by GSS/SEG teams.
>>         - Most PL IdM and Federation capabilities such as SAML (plus a plenty of other things) are now available from Keycloak.
>> 
>>     I think we can still provide an installer (we already have that) that could be used to enable PL to a WFLY installation. That would help people using PL to continue with their designs. But for PL Federation and Subsystem, Keycloak should be the best way to go.
>> 
>>     Any comments ?
>> 
>> Regards.
>> Pedro Igor
>> 
>> [1] http://picketlink.org/news/2015/03/10/PicketLink-and-Keycloak-project-merge/
>> [2] http://picketlink.org/keycloak-merge-faq/
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