Chapter 4. Deprecated components

Business Optimizer (OptaPlanner) 8.13.x, included as part of Red Hat Process Automation Manager, is in maintenance support. For the latest supported versions of OptaPlanner (8.29 and later) upgrade to Red Hat build of OptaPlanner, the newest addition to Red Hat Application Foundations. For more info, see Red Hat build of OptaPlanner is now available in Red Hat Application Foundations.

Both OptaPlanner 7 and OptaPlanner 8 are included with Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.13, but OptaPlanner 7 is deprecated and might be removed in a future release. For information about migrating your OptaPlanner 7 projects to OptaPlanner 8, see Upgrading your Red Hat build of OptaPlanner projects to OptaPlanner 8.

The following OptaPlanner tooling in Business Central is part of OptaPlanner 7. They are deprecated and might be removed in a future release.

Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3 is removed in this release

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is deprecated in Red Hat Process Automation Manager and features and will be removed in a future release.

Support for JDK 8 is deprecated in Red Hat Process Automation Manager and might be removed in a future release.

For a complete list of supported JDK configurations, see Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7 Supported Configurations.

The legacy kie-pmml dependency was deprecated with Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.10.0 and will be replaced in a future Red Hat Process Automation Manager release. For more information, see Designing a decision service using PMML models.

Support for integration with the OSGi framework is deprecated in Red Hat Process Automation Manager. It does not receive any new enhancements or features and will be removed in a future release. The decision and process engine integration with the OSGi framework is currently incompatible with Fuse version 7.8. If you intend to use the OSGi framework, continue to use Red Hat Process Automation Manager version 7.9 with Fuse version 7.7 until Fuse version 7.9 is available and certified.

The Red Hat Process Automation Manager RuleUnit API is deprecated due to incompatibility with the Kogito RuleUnit API.

The legacy Test Scenarios tool was deprecated in Red Hat Process Automation Manager version 7.3.0. It will be removed in a future Red Hat Process Automation Manager release. Use the new Test Scenarios designer instead.

High available (HA) event-driven decisioning, including Complex Event Processing (CEP), is deprecated due to end of support for AMQ Streams 1.x.