[wildfly-dev] Time to remove *-elytron.xml Configurations

[Scott Marlow]

After we have completely switched to Elytron, will there be
*-legacy.xml files for switching back to Picketbox?

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:27 AM, Darran Lofthouse
<darran.lofthouse at jboss.com> wrote:
> I think it is now time to start removing the *-elytron.xml
> configurations from the feature packs, these were added so we could
> start to get Elytron enabled in isolation.  As more and more is
> integrated it makes less sense to keep the isolation, and if anything it
> is starting to make things harder such as testing.
>
> The default configuration I have planned is for components to be updated
> to reference Elytron and for the Elytron configuration to be closely
> aligned with the existing default configuration, i.e. Digest
> authentication, backed by properties file and local authentication.
>
> We did think if we should enable stronger authentication immediately but
> that will break the existing clients already out there, if we do this in
> stages the clients should have had a chance to be updated to Elytron so
> when we do switch to stronger authentication by default the clients will
> be ready.
>
> So step 1, I will move the Elytron extension and subsystem definition(s)
> into the existing configurations we ship and remove the *-elytron.xml
> definitions.
>
> We will then incrementally update resources that reference security
> services to reference Elytron capabilities.
>
> Regards,
> Darran Lofthouse.
>
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