[wildfly-dev] Removal of commons-cli, commons-lang and commons-lang3 modules

[Darran Lofthouse]

+1 the tool is a shaded jar so should not need to depend on another module.

We may want to look at shading again but that would be a different topic.

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 10:13 PM James Perkins <jperkins at redhat.com> wrote:

> I believe the org.wildfly.security:wildfly-elytron-tool does use
> org.apache.commons.lang3. However IIRC it's now shaded in so likely not an
> issue. That could be why it was originally there.
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 12:34 PM Brian Stansberry <
> brian.stansberry at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Currently WildFly includes 3 JBoss Modules modules that are not used in
>> our runtime. I would like to remove these in WildFly 17:
>>
>> org.apache.commons.cli
>> org.apache.commons.lang[1]
>> org.apache.commons.lang3
>>
>> All three have the "jboss.api" = "private" property set in their
>> module.xml, meaning they are marked for internal use only and we are free
>> to remove them. End user applications should not have referenced these
>> modules, and if they do we log a WARN on boot advising not to do that.
>>
>> However, other projects that extend WildFly (i.e. write their own
>> subsystems) may be using these modules, so I wanted to notify any such
>> folks that these will likely be going away and you'll need to provide these
>> yourselves.ed.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Brian
>>
>> [1] This one is referenced in a commented out module.xml section related
>> to My Faces 1.1 support. I've checked with Farah Juma and that is no longer
>> relevant and the comment can be removed.
>>
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