Enhancement: Payara should use Jandex to speed up CDI deployments

[lprimak]

Brief Summary

CDI deployment speed could use improvement

Jandex is much faster than using class scanning, because it's done at build time and can be cached.
Using Jandex could speed to deployment by orders of magnitude.
Jandex indexes should be used and / or cached for all internal Payara CDI extensions

Expected Outcome

Jandex is used for all CDI modules, including internal ones.

Current Outcome

Jandex is not used

Alternatives

None

Context

No response

[artur-mal]

The proposed enhancement has been submitted for an open vote.

[lprimak]

I'll probably get a PR going on this one as well

[github-actions]

Greetings,
This enhancement request has been selected by the Payara Community as the most voted enhancement of this month and
thus will be escalated to our product development backlog.

[artur-mal]

@lprimak , could you kindly confirm if you plan to implement the enhancement you suggested?
If so, I will proceed with closing this issue.

[lprimak]

Yes, this will be my last one for the year :)

[artur-mal]

Thank you for the confirmation.

[lprimak]

I have started working on this issue.
It's way too early for a PR, but you can follow progress at https://github.com/flowlogix/Payara/tree/jandex-deploy