[jboss-as7-dev] Module for EL

[Rémy Maucherat]

On 04/15/2013 01:21 PM, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> another related question is which EL implementation to use.
>
> We are currently using JBoss EL which afaiu is not actively maintained anymore.  EE 7 will bring an update to  EL via JSR 341. What implementation will we use within AS8? The reference implementation, an somehow updated JBoss EL or JUEL (provided there will be a JSR 341compliant JUEL version).
>
> >From the Bean Validation perspective and in order to move https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-6665 along just creating a standalone el module is enough, but I think for the long term we need to discuss which EL implementation to use.
>
Yes, it is actively maintained. It lives in the Jasper impl of web (and 
undertow), which is in turn now synced with upstream Tomcat EL.

For the EL3 implementation, the decision hasn't been made yet besides 
using either one from Tomcat (there's none at the moment) or the RI.

Rémy