This release will be a major technology change as well as simplification regarding life-cycle management of the projects.
- The RAP based WebIDE will be separated form the AppServer
- AppServer will go non-OSGi
- Light WebIDE will be promoted as default - Angular 1.x/Bootstrap with Orion Editor
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Production readiness
- Deployment model - Kubernetes + Docker
- Structured Storage (RDBMS) - PostgreSQL
- Unstructured Storage (noSQL) - Cassandra
- Messaging Service - ActiveMQ
- Process Engine - Flowable
- Indexing Engine - Lucene
- JavaScript Engine - Nashorn with ES6 support and V8 as an option
- CXF for RESTful services
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Project structure simplification
- Plain Java modules for services
- Webjars like modules for APIs and IDE plgins
- Webjars like modules also for Dirigible's Applications