Deprecate support for the remote shell

[wilkinsona]

It's going to be removed in 2.0 (#7006)

[gnuphie]

Are there any plans for a replacement? I have really found this feature useful.

[wilkinsona]

Sorry, not at the moment. Based on the stats we have, it would appear that the remote shell isn't very widely used. For example, comparing Maven Central downloads for August, the remote shell starter had 2% of the downloads that the web starter had. That means that it's unlikely to be worth investing significant effort in a replacement.

[philwebb]

@gnuphie Out of interest, what do you find useful about the feature? What keeps you using it over the web endpoints or JMX?

[aligit]

is it possible to use jshell with spring boot as a replacement?

[philwebb]

@aligit you mean the REPL shipped with Java 9? If so they're different things. This issue was specifically about embedded ssh support.

[anand1st]

FYI. There's a new project providing support for SSH with spring boot 2.x. You can find it at https://github.com/anand1st/sshd-shell-spring-boot. It's not compatible with spring-boot-remote-shell implementations but it should be not be too difficult to migrate.

P.S. I am the author. If there are any suggestions, please do let me know.

[bkahlerventer]

sshd-shell-spring-boot appears to have died with spring-boot 2.3 the last version supported...