(Copied from an old post in the embulk-announce mailing list.)

Hi Embulk users,

As mentioned in the previous e-mail, we are going to change the usage of EmbulkEmbed and EmbulkService. EmbulkEmbed users, please check the following list, stay tuned on next announcements, and take care when you are upgrading embulk-core versions. (All the following changes will not affect Embulk CLI usage. Then, I believe most users are not affected.)

1) Remove EmbulkServce

org.embulk.EmbulkService will be removed soon. Users need to switch to org.embulk.EmbulkEmbed.

2) Drop support for JSR-250 LifeCycle annotations (@PostConstruct and @PreDestroy)

As mentioned in https://github.com/embulk/embulk/issues/1047, we are going to drop support for @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy. If you’re using them, please leave your comments in https://github.com/embulk/embulk/issues/1047. EmbulkEmbed#destroy() will be unsupported as well.

Embulk v0.9.12 shows warning messages for use of @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy before actual drop. If you’re concerned, please try Embulk v0.9.12.

3) Change the usage of SLF4J Logger and LoggerFactory

Logback (SLF4J backend) has been included in embulk-core’s dependencies, Logback has been configured in the beginning of EmbulkEmbed. Those will be changed.

EmbulkEmbed users will have to include and configure some SLF4J backend library by themselves.

4) Change the way to load dependency libraries from embulk-core

Dependency libraries of embulk-core are currently to be located in CLASSPATH, and to be loaded simultaneously with embulk-core. But this way exposes these libraries to plugins, and it has caused complicated dependency problems with plugins.

We are going to change the way to load dependency libraries. EmbulkEmbed users will have to call Embulk’s static method to specify paths to those dependency libraries before initializing EmbulkEmbed.