Intention of dropping WAR support for Sling 12

[Robert Munteanu <ro...@apache.org>]

Dear Sling users,

The Apache Sling developers have been discussing migrating the next
Sling release to the feature model. You can read more about the feature
model at [1],[2] and the migration plans at [3].

We are confident that users and developers of Sling alike will be
better served with the feature model.

We will aim to make the transition as seamless as possible for our
users, but there will be some differences at runtime, and the most
important one is that there is no WAR file support.

The concrete impact is that as of Sling 12 you will no longer be able
to download a WAR file of the Sling Starter. The archetypes will also
be tailored for building feature model applications, so no WAR support
there.

You will still have the provisioning model tooling around and the older
archetypes for building your own apps, even if it hasn't seem that much
attention lately.

If WAR support for the Sling Starter is important for you, please let
us know so we can understand how to best manage this transition.

Thanks,

Robert


[1]: https://sling.apache.org/documentation/development/feature-model.html
[2]: https://github.com/apache/sling-org-apache-sling-feature
[3]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SLING/Migrating+the+Sling+Starter+to+the+Feature+Model

Re: Intention of dropping WAR support for Sling 12

[Robert Munteanu <ro...@apache.org>]

On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 23:10 +0200, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> If WAR support for the Sling Starter is important for you, please let
> us know so we can understand how to best manage this transition.

For the record, no one actually asked for further WAR support, so there
is no plan to create support for WAR artifacts for Sling 12.

Thanks,
Robert