[jboss-dev] Remove unused components from trunk

[Brian Stansberry]

On 12/15/2009 09:59 AM, Ales Justin wrote:
>> It was my impression that the use of
>> org.jboss.system.ServiceMBeanSupport was discouraged in AS5 in favor of
>> pojos w/JMX annotations.  Are there any plans to officially deprecate
>> ServiceMBeanSupport in AS6 to further encourage the migration of
>> existing mbeans (there are several dozen subclasses) to the more loosely
>> coupled pojo model?
>
> If it's not yet officially deprecated, it should be.
>
> Once I'm done with this:
> *
> http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jboss-development/2009-December/015142.html
> I'll have a closer look on what we can/should do with those existing mbeans.
> But it will definitely require a joined effort to be completely off
> mbeans - hence making JMX usage optional as we always promised.
>

+100 on getting rid of any remaining use by ourselves of 
ServiceMBeanSupport. But this class is also a public API for custom end 
user services.

I'm not arguing against deprecating it; just pointing out it's not 
purely internal. I'm personally OK with deprecating it as long as we 
give plenty of notice before actually removing it.

> My guess is we still have mbeans for admin and notification purposes?
> The first one should be replaced with EmbeddedJopr ops, the 2nd one with
> proper MC's dependencies.
>

-- 
Brian Stansberry
Lead, AS Clustering
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