Removal of OpenSRF and Evergreen Java Libraries

[Jason Stephenson]

OpenSRF and Evergreen have Java libraries that can be built to write applications using the XMPP backend for OpenSRF. However, it requires the use of a special configure script flag to do so.

Furthermore, the OpenSRF side of this build is broken. The dependency fetcher script fails to retrieve the needed Java libraries since the ones it tries to retrieve are out of date and have been deleted.

In addition to this, the Java code has not been touched in a long time and would require changes to handle chunking and bundling and other modern OpenSRF features.

This bug proposed deleting the Java code from both OpenSRF and Evergreen, since the former no longer builds and the latter is useless without it.

If anyone objects to this, they can step forward to update the Java libraries and maintain them in the future.

Barring any such objection, a removal branch will follow.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Branch for OpenSRF is here: https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/OpenSRF.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/dyrcona/lp1827051-remove-java

Branch for Evergreen is here: https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/dyrcona/lp1827051-remove-java

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Following up on the developers' IRC meeting today, I have rebased the above two branches on master, and force pushed them.

It would be good to get these in for OpenSRF 3.3 and Evergreen 3.7.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

I pushed a version of the OpenSRF and Evergreen branches rebased on Bill Erickson's remove Python branch on bug 1827055.

OpenSRF:
https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/OpenSRF.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/dyrcona/lp1827051-remove-java-rebased

Evergreen:
https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/dyrcona/lp1827051-remove-java-rebased

These should apply more easily if Bill's branches go in first.

[Chris Sharp (chrissharp123)]

Pushed to master. Thanks, Jason!

[Jeff Godin (jgodin)]

Noting that this bug (and its sibling bug 1827055 for removing Python support) has not yet made it into an OpenSRF release. Added target for OpenSRF 3.3-beta, though including it in the next 3.2 release might make sense also.

[Jason Stephenson (jstephenson)]

Should this be included for an OpenSRF 3.2.3 release as Jeff suggests? I'm inclined to agree, though it is not as critical as removing the Python support.