Hi all,
While preparing for the release of Restlet Framework 2.1 M1 (due tomorrow), I’ve done some clean-up and removed modules that we won’t develop or support anymore. The goal is to focus our energy on the modules adding the most value to end-users rather than trying to integrate with everything cool technology around. I first had a look at the incubator and saw three modules that aren’t developed anymore: · JXTA : technology for peer-to-peer networks which has evolved much since 2007 · Shell : command line support for Restlet, which we prefer to cover using IDE tooling <http://wiki.restlet.org/developers/172-restlet/361-restlet.html> in the future · Atmosphere : mostly empty, dependency on Servlet API, too much to do, too much overlap with the asynchronous Restlet API features… but interesting project to keep an eye on :) In addition I would like to remove the Grizzly and Netty extensions which are considered as experimental connectors in Restlet Framework 2.0. The new internal connector <http://wiki.restlet.org/developers/172-restlet/354-restlet.html> based on non-blocking NIO that will be available in version 2.1 M1 now provides similar advantages (fully decoupling HTTP connections and IO threads) and is already more complete from a HTTP coverage point of view. Relying on our own connector also has many advantages as control the IO layer and can provide features such as TCP/IP connection blocking which would be possible to offer in a consistent manner across all extension connectors. Users of these connectors in version 2.0 will be encouraged to leverage the NIO internal connector in 2.1 or the two other extensions that will still be available in 2.1 (Jetty and Simple connectors), but might follow the same path in version 2.2. As always, feed-back is welcome. Best regards, Jerome -- Restlet ~ Founder and Technical Lead ~ <http://www.restlet.org/> http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ <http://www.noelios.com/> http://www.noelios.com ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2678104
