[aerogear-dev] [ag-controller] Deprecating AeroGear-Controller

[Jay Balunas]

Some of my thoughts:

The concern I have with leaving the REST bits as they are is confusion in what should be used, and when.  If we're not going to be enhancing the REST support, we should deprecate it imo.

If the controller's MVC functionality is going to move forward (i.e. not be deprecated) we should plan for its future carefully so that it works well with the REST support provided by JAX-RS /RESTEasy.  I'm just not sure of the priority over other things atm.  So it might be the type of thing where we take it where we can, and see if there is community interest in moving it forward.

I certainly would like to see a solid MVC be standardized in EE(X), and it might be in the future.  However, there are a lot of different  mvc frameworks out there and I'm concerned over trying to create another, especially if it seems our functionality is tied to it.

Either way, we should update our examples to show how to use our technology with RESTEasy, with or without the controller and/or other mvc options. So that users know they have options here.


On Jun 9, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Kris Borchers wrote:

> I'm not sure deprecation is necessary but I would vote with Bruno to just leave the REST bits as is and ensure nothing else depends on them. Then we just make a note in the README that we have discontinued development and support on them. Then remove any references from AeroGear.org and only talk about our other server side bits.
> 
> On Jun 9, 2013, at 9:03, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org> wrote:
> 
>> Ok, I almost had a heart attack here :) I'd say leave the REST bits as is and give to people a choice. 
>> 
>> -
>> abstractj
>> 
>> On Jun 9, 2013, 10:57 AM, Daniel Bevenius wrote: 
>> 
>>> >Deprecate?! Why?! Do we have a lightweight MVC to replace?
>>> I should have written, deprecate the RESTful part of AeroGear controller, as this is really what has been discussed.
>>> If it makes sense to keep the MVC parts we can certainly do that. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 9 June 2013 15:51, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org> wrote:
>>> Aloha Daniel,
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> So how do we make it visible that we have deprecated AeroGear-Controller? 
>>> 
>>> Deprecate?! Why?! Do we have a lightweight MVC to replace?
>>> 
>>> -
>>> abstractj
>>> 
>>> On Jun 9, 2013, 8:25 AM, Daniel Bevenius wrote: 
>>> 
>>>> Originally, AeroGear Controller was an MVC only implementation, where requests could be forwarded to different types of views. Later we added support for RESTful endpoints which was very basic to start with, but more and more feature requests have come which is the reason for creating this email.
>>>> 
>>>> We did not set out to implement the RESTful support our selves, instead the goal was to use RestEasy but as we required to be able to programmatically add endpoints which was not an option at the time (but support for this does now exist in RestEasy).
>>>> 
>>>> AeroGear controller's REST support started out very simple but as time passed more request for things that are taken for granted in a JAX-RS implementation were being asked for. We were moving toward something equivalent to a JAX-RS implementation with regards to what we supported. Adding more of these features added to the complexity of the Controller as we needed to figure out good ways to provide the features requested, and this also brings up the question if we should be doing this. The controller is not specific to mobil, as any backend can be used with the client SDKs. Also, there are plenty of options to implement RESTful backends, in Java using RestEasy for example, or in a different language. 
>>>> 
>>>> And after some discussions it has been decided that we should focus are efforts in other places when it comes to our server side offerings, for example the Unified Push Server and SimplePush Server etc. 
>>>> 
>>>> So how do we make it visible that we have deprecated AeroGear-Controller? 
>>>> 
>>>> A clear notice in the README.md is a good start. Should we mark every class as deprecated as well?
>>>> 
>>>> These are just suggestions and if you have other ideas please let us know. 
>>>> 
>>>> /Dan
>>>> 
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