Eclipse Dirigible 3.0 Release Review

Type: 
Release
State: 
Ongoing
End Date of the Review Period: 

Reviews run for a minimum of one week. The outcome of the review is decided on this date. This is the last day to make comments or ask questions about this review.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Project: 
Eclipse Dirigible
Release: 

Eclipse Dirigible 3.0

Description: 

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
  • Production readiness
    • Deployment model - Kubernetes + Docker
    • Structured Storage (RDBMS) - PostgreSQL
    • Unstructured Storage (noSQL) - Cassandra
    • Messaging Hub - Kafka
    • Process Engine - Activiti
    • JavaScript Engine - Nashorn with ES6 support (V8 as an option)
    • CXF for RESTful services
  • Project structure simplification
    • Plain Java modules for services
    • Webjars like modules for APIs and IDE plgins
    • Webjars like modules also for Dirigible's Applications