[jboss-as7-dev] Time to drop the 3 from EJB3?

[Jason Greene]

On Apr 3, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Brian Stansberry <brian.stansberry at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 4/3/13 8:54 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> Yes BUT any chance we have to move this way we should take when we can.
> 
> Said "when we can" is not now, IMHO. :)

Agreed. In fact, there are no plans for a 4. EE8 has no plans for a 4, and I doubt EE9 will either. We are probably 8 AS releases away from ever having to worry about it. 


> 
> List of key tasks on the tight schedule for 8:
> 
> EE7
> Undertow
> Patching
> ORB
> Something else I'm forgetting... (sorry Jason!)
> 
> Plus
> 
> EAP stuff
> logistics around renaming the project
> 
> We're still in a mode where the short term task list is growing, rather 
> than shrinking. Until that situation reverses, let's defer this kind of 
> thing.
> 
> The management infrastructure has a mechanism for "aliases" which 
> conceptually will allow this. We haven't used it for an entire subsystem 
> before, so there may be some sort of gotcha there.
> 
>>   It'll be a lot easier to do this as we can than to suddenly have to
>> react when, say, EJB 4.0 is released.
>> 
>> If the namespace changes, let's change this part too.  We can read
>> "ejb3" for compatibility but we should write "ejb".  Transformers should
>> be able to take care of the rest I would think.
>> 
>> On 04/03/2013 07:58 AM, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
>>> It's actually more than just the namespace change. The "ejb3" gets
>>> referenced in the management model too and we can't change that given
>>> our backward compatibility promise. Maybe there could be some kind of
>>> redirection setup for redirecting subsystem=ejb3 to subsystem=ejb in the
>>> management API, but I'm not sure how easy or difficult it is to do that.
>>> 
>>> -Jaikiran
>>> On Wednesday 03 April 2013 05:48 PM, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
>>>> Just a quick thought, is it now time to drop the 3 from EJB3?
>>>> 
>>>> The 3 has lived on in the namespace for the subsystem
>>>> "urn:jboss:domain:ejb3:2.0" but as AS8 != EAP 6 maybe we can cope with
>>>> the 3 going.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Darran Lofthouse.
>>>> 
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