[wildfly-dev] Remove PL from WFLY

[Andrig Miller]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Jason Greene <jason.greene at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Aug 19, 2016, at 9:03 AM, Pedro Igor Silva <psilva at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >    On the last few days I've been discussing with Tomaz about the
> possibility to remove PL from WFLY.
> >
> >    The reasons for that are:
> >
> >        - PicketLink was deprecated in favor of Keycloak. See [1] and [2].
> >        - Fixes are only being done to product version by GSS/SEG teams.
> >        - Most PL IdM and Federation capabilities such as SAML (plus a
> plenty of other things) are now available from Keycloak.
> >
> >    I think we can still provide an installer (we already have that) that
> could be used to enable PL to a WFLY installation. That would help people
> using PL to continue with their designs. But for PL Federation and
> Subsystem, Keycloak should be the best way to go.
> >
> >    Any comments ?
>
> When the provisioning infrastructure for WildFly exists we could relocate
> it to an optional module that is not included in the default feature pack.
>
> As it is now though, the best we can do is just not put it in our default
> config, which is already the case.
>
> We could remove it from WF11, but there are two major negatives:
>
> 1. Might break users that rely on it
>

​Of course it is deprecated, and this has been the case since EAP 6.4.  I
wonder what PM thinks on this.  EAP 7.1, would be two releases past the
deprecation.  Maybe its early, but perhaps not.
​


> 2. Since it’s necessary in EAP 7.1 we would have to add it back in again.
>

​Is this a hard requirement for EAP 7.1, that we continue to have the
deprecated components?
​


>
> It seems easier to just leave it be for now.
>
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> Jason T. Greene
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Andrig (Andy) T. Miller
Global Platform Director, Middleware
Red Hat, Inc.
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