[FLINK-14105] Make flink-runtime scala-free

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.14.0
• Component/s: Runtime / Configuration, Runtime / Coordination
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major

Release Note

Flink's akka dependency is now loaded with a separate classloader and no longer accessible from the outside.
Resulting from that various modules, most prominently flink-runtime, no longer have a scala suffix in their artifactId.

• Assignee: Chesnay Schepler
• Reporter: Zili Chen
• Created: 17/Sep/19 12:54
• Updated: 13/Jul/21 16:07
• Resolved: 13/Jul/21 16:07

Description

As the consensus among our community(please link dedicated thread if there is) we keep in mind that flink-runtime will be eventually scala-free. It is because of maintenance concerns, release concerns and so on.

This is an umbrella issue to track all efforts that towards a scala-free flink-runtime.

Issue Links

• blocks: FLINK-19168 Upgrade Kafka client version beyond 2.5.0
• is blocked by: FLINK-23118 Drop Mesos support