[jboss-as7-dev] Module for EL

[Hardy Ferentschik]

On 15 Jan 2013, at 1:27 PM, Rémy Maucherat <rmaucher at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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.

Do you have some pointers to the source, issue tracker, documentation, etc? All searches I did when trying to find out more information about JBoss EL kept me empty handed.

> 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.

Fair enough. What do you guys thing about the suggestion of breaking out EL (api + impl) in its own module?

--Hardy