Moduliths to become a Spring experimental project

[odrotbohm]

I'm delighted to announce that Moduliths is going to become an official, Spring experimental project. Spring Modulith will be based on Spring Boot 3.0 and Java 17, and we will use the move to reset the version number to 0.1, both to be able to revisit some default settings and also express the incubating status of the project. The current plan is to release 0.1 GA right after Spring Boot 3.0 GA, currently scheduled for the end of November, with a couple of milestones and release candidates in between.

Users of Moduliths can give the 0.1.0-SNAPSHOT of Spring Modulith (available via the Spring snapshot repository) a try by changing the artifact coordinates to org.springframework.experimental:spring-modulith-… (note the lack of the trailing "s"!). We have already changed a few of the core abstractions, primarily renaming everything that was Module… before to ApplicationModule, both for the optional annotations and the core model abstractions to be used in test code. We're going to ship a detailed upgrade guide with the first milestone of Spring Modulith 0.1.

Moduliths will be maintained on its current 1.3 generation until Spring Boot 2.7 goes out of open-source maintenance (currently scheduled for November 2023). We don't plan to add any significant new features, but would be willing to help the community port ones that we add on the Spring Modulith side if there is significant interest.

[vpavic]

Congrats! 🙂

To make this news a bit more visible to people interacting with this repo, it might be a good idea to update the readme on main branch with a link to new project home and some additional info (potentially link to this announcement).

[odrotbohm]

Sure thing! We will have more information updated once we announce the initial release of the project on the Spring side of thing.

[odrotbohm]

The project migration note has been added to the readme.