[wildfly-dev] Re: Planned removal of Weld Probe

Hi Matej, Thanks for checking for community input! Perhaps post on https://groups.google.com/g/wildfly as well? That's a somewhat different audience as it's end user oriented and doesn't involve a list subscription. Best regards, Brian On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 9:40 AM Matej Novotny <manovotn(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hello > > This email is to let users and the community know that we are considering > removing development mode, known as Weld Probe, from the next version of > Weld 5. > > Tracking issue for this can be seen here[1] but I will provide a short > overview for this decision below. We value feedback so please don't > hesitate to reach back via this email, JIRA issue or via Gitter. > > First of all, the reason why we want to remove it is because the tool has > been left unmaintained for an extended period of time. Namely the UI part > is fairly outdated; especially the libraries it uses. We lack the time > and/or manpower to completely rewrite and maintain the client part of Probe > (the single page html UI) which is why we opted for removal rather than > shipping outdated code. > > There are two ways we can go about this: > > 1. Complete removal of Probe with all of its parts > - this means there will be no development mode and it removes all Probe > code > - removes (or deprecates) any configuration options linked to it > > 2. Removal of just the client side code (the UI) and keeping Probe > internals which expose all the information via JSON > - this would only remove UI parts of Probe; you'd no longer get any > means to inspect the deployment except JSON data > - however, this allows for custom community client to be written and to > consume this data > > As we lack any data on whether Probe is being currently used and whether > the community would appreciate keeping the JSON data, we are at the moment > leaning towards removing Probe altogether. > > That being said, if there is interest from the community, we'd be more > than happy to keep the JSON parts of Probe in place so don't hesitate to > reach out and tell us. Last but not least, even if Probe gets removed now, > we can reintroduce it at a later point in time. > > Regards > Matej > ___________________________________________________________ > [1] https://issues.redhat.com/browse/WELD-2733 > > > > _______________________________________________ > wildfly-dev mailing list -- wildfly-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wildfly-dev-leave(a)lists.jboss.org > %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s