Re: [che-dev] Java extension is getting bigger

[Gennady Azarenkov <gazarenk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 2:18 PM Thomas Mäder <tmader@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 11/11/2019 12:57, Gennady Azarenkov wrote:

Taking into account we are going toward real microservice architecture for IDE [1],

why we consider running several extensions in the same container as a target? 

[1] https://che.eclipse.org/eclipse-che-7-is-now-available-40ae07120b38

"The version 7 of Eclipse Che introduces a new model of workspaces of workspaces where the IDE is splitted into multiple micro-services running in separate containers."

Our goal as an organization is not to provide an example of a microservices architecture. Our goal is to provide the best IDE for and on OpenShift/Kubernetes. If microservices are a good tool for that, fine, but an architecture is always a means, not a end.

Microservices are not "a tool" it is a way of providing the best IDE extensibility experience which is the main promise of Che 7.

I really do understand the complexity you face trying to solve this technical debt, but I doubt every time we face such a complexity a default way to solve is revising the project goals.

 

/Thomas