AEM easy content upgrade includes deprecated package sling.settings

[royteeuwen]

When installing the AEM easy content upgrade bundle for AEMaaCS, the aem analyser gives following warning:

[WARNING] [region-deprecated-api] de.valtech.aecu:aecu.core:5.1.0: Usage of deprecated package found : org.apache.sling.settings : AEM as a Cloud Service does not support run modes or file system access at runtime. Deprecated since 2020-10-05 (com.my-site.all:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT|Valtech:aecu.complete.cloud:5.1.0)

This package should best be removed completely or at least for the cloud package

[gruberrolandvaltech]

At the moment there is no proper replacement for the service. Some projects started to simulate runmodes wth custom OSGI configuration. But this is a bad solution as users need to configure each project individually.
We will wait some more time if Adobe is able to provide a proper replacement.

[royteeuwen]

@gruberrolandvaltech is there any official statement from Adobe or an internal support ticket? As far as I understood there will be no replacement and they even recommend to use an OSGi configuration now. It is really simple to set up, you can easily enable / disable an environment through it just like any other service you might have. It would be sad that this project stays forever in warning mode for aem analyser, and from the moment they start enforcing the deprecations it will need quick actions

[gruberrolandvaltech]

Related issues in other products:
Adobe-Consulting-Services/acs-aem-commons#2476
Netcentric/accesscontroltool#624