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h1. Z2-Environment version 3.0
Version 3.0 is in progress
The main goals for 3.0 is to provide features that simplify user adoption.
h2 Simplified Entry-Level Operations
In order to reduce the initial usage barrier, the following should be possible (or simplified)
* Have a system layout consisting of a number of auto-discovered co-located file system repositories
** Much like the dev repo but actually based on the FSCR and "always armed"
** Benefit: Supports Git-branching approaches out of the box
** Benefit: Allows System Releases as a single ZIP to be exploded without any online access (a regular "copy" deployment)
* Provide consistent and complete system export
** Support binary or source-preserving export
** Provide clean component name escaping so we can also export mvn-provided artifacts if desired
** so we can offer a complete base distribution as binary download
** Running samples means to clone co-located Git Repos
** Make re-binding of repository locations simpler (e.g. a remote repo becomes a local FS repo after export)
* Support single-process mode (e.g. no Worker mode - move worker support into an add-on)
h2. Free Web Container Choice
It should be possible to use a Web Container of choice, as long as it is Jetty or Tomcat. Our tests indicate that it should be simple to programmatically control any pre-installed instance.
* Provide a web container resource that hooks up with a pre-configured web container OR a self-hosted web container
* This will require some creative business with the servlet/jsp and Web Container class path
h2. Improvements
* Seamless support of Maven repositories (see [[V23]], [[maven_repo_support]])
* Introduce "Java Templates", Java (and others) Component configuration made simpler (see [[smart_props]])
* Port add-ons and samples to maven repos for external artifacts