Restore JDK 25 detection in db-migration test script after Quarkus merge

Exclude merge-pulled-in signature-mismatch tests from Quarkus build
Merge main into migration/run-02 with full Spring removal for pulled-in code
2026-06-19 17:19:12 +01:00 · 2026-06-19 16:44:44 +01:00 · 2026-06-19 14:48:03 +01:00 · 2026-06-19 10:44:30 +00:00 · 2026-06-19 10:34:55 +00:00 · 2026-06-18 22:20:02 +01:00
1242 changed files with 87913 additions and 101126 deletions
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ set -e
 # - To build the project, use:
 #     ./gradlew build
 #
-# - For running pre-commit hooks (if configured), use:
-#     pre-commit run --all-files
+# - To run the lint/format/secret checks, use:
+#     task pre-commit
 #
 # Make sure you are in the project root directory after this script executes.
 # =============================================================================
@@ -70,6 +70,6 @@ echo ""
 echo "  To build the project: "
 echo -e "\e[34m    gradle build\e[0m"
 echo ""
-echo "  To run pre-commit hooks (if configured):"
-echo -e "\e[34m    pre-commit run --all-files -c .pre-commit-config.yaml\e[0m"
+echo "  To run the lint/format/secret checks:"
+echo -e "\e[34m    task pre-commit\e[0m"
 echo "=================================================================="
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 build/
 */build/
 **/build/
+# ...but re-include the Quarkus runner-jar so docker/quarkus/Dockerfile can layer it on the base image
+!app/core/build/*-runner.jar
 out/
 target/
 **/target/
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Stirling PDF Inc <contact@stirlingpdf.com>
 pkgname=stirling-pdf-desktop
-pkgver=2.12.0
+pkgver=2.13.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Locally hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool (Tauri desktop app, official Stirling PDF Inc build)"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Stirling PDF Inc <contact@stirlingpdf.com>
 pkgname=stirling-pdf-server-bin
-pkgver=2.12.0
+pkgver=2.13.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Locally hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool (server JAR, prebuilt)"
 arch=('any')
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-pre-commit
@@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
-#
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.12
-# by the following command:
-#
-#    pip-compile --generate-hashes --output-file='.github\scripts\requirements_pre_commit.txt' --strip-extras '.github\scripts\requirements_pre_commit.in'
-#
-cfgv==3.5.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:a8dc6b26ad22ff227d2634a65cb388215ce6cc96bbcc5cfde7641ae87e8dacc0 \
-    --hash=sha256:d5b1034354820651caa73ede66a6294d6e95c1b00acc5e9b098e917404669132
-    # via pre-commit
-distlib==0.4.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:9659f7d87e46584a30b5780e43ac7a2143098441670ff0a49d5f9034c54a6c16 \
-    --hash=sha256:feec40075be03a04501a973d81f633735b4b69f98b05450592310c0f401a4e0d
-    # via virtualenv
-filelock==3.29.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:69974355e960702e789734cb4871f884ea6fe50bd8404051a3530bc07809cf90 \
-    --hash=sha256:96f5f6344709aa1572bbf631c640e4ebeeb519e08da902c39a001882f30ac258
-    # via
-    #   python-discovery
-    #   virtualenv
-identify==2.6.19 \
-    --hash=sha256:20e6a87f786f768c092a721ad107fc9df0eb89347be9396cadf3f4abbd1fb78a \
-    --hash=sha256:6be5020c38fcb07da56c53733538a3081ea5aa70d36a156f83044bfbf9173842
-    # via pre-commit
-nodeenv==1.10.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:5bb13e3eed2923615535339b3c620e76779af4cb4c6a90deccc9e36b274d3827 \
-    --hash=sha256:996c191ad80897d076bdfba80a41994c2b47c68e224c542b48feba42ba00f8bb
-    # via pre-commit
-platformdirs==4.9.6 \
-    --hash=sha256:3bfa75b0ad0db84096ae777218481852c0ebc6c727b3168c1b9e0118e458cf0a \
-    --hash=sha256:e61adb1d5e5cb3441b4b7710bea7e4c12250ca49439228cc1021c00dcfac0917
-    # via
-    #   python-discovery
-    #   virtualenv
-pre-commit==4.6.0 \
-    --hash=sha256:718d2208cef53fdc38206e40524a6d4d9576d103eb16f0fec11c875e7716e9d9 \
-    --hash=sha256:e2cf246f7299edcabcf15f9b0571fdce06058527f0a06535068a86d38089f29b
-    # via -r .github/scripts/requirements_pre_commit.in
-python-discovery==1.2.2 \
-    --hash=sha256:876e9c57139eb757cb5878cbdd9ae5379e5d96266c99ef731119e04fffe533bb \
-    --hash=sha256:e1ae95d9af875e78f15e19aed0c6137ab1bb49c200f21f5061786490c9585c7a
-    # via virtualenv
-pyyaml==6.0.3 \
-    --hash=sha256:00c4bdeba853cc34e7dd471f16b4114f4162dc03e6b7afcc2128711f0eca823c \
-    --hash=sha256:0150219816b6a1fa26fb4699fb7daa9caf09eb1999f3b70fb6e786805e80375a \
-    --hash=sha256:02893d100e99e03eda1c8fd5c441d8c60103fd175728e23e431db1b589cf5ab3 \
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-    --hash=sha256:0f29edc409a6392443abf94b9cf89ce99889a1dd5376d94316ae5145dfedd5d6 \
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-    --hash=sha256:16249ee61e95f858e83976573de0f5b2893b3677ba71c9dd36b9cf8be9ac6d65 \
-    --hash=sha256:1d37d57ad971609cf3c53ba6a7e365e40660e3be0e5175fa9f2365a379d6095a \
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-    --hash=sha256:d0eae10f8159e8fdad514efdc92d74fd8d682c933a6dd088030f3834bc8e6b26 \
-    --hash=sha256:d76623373421df22fb4cf8817020cbb7ef15c725b9d5e45f17e189bfc384190f \
-    --hash=sha256:ebc55a14a21cb14062aa4162f906cd962b28e2e9ea38f9b4391244cd8de4ae0b \
-    --hash=sha256:eda16858a3cab07b80edaf74336ece1f986ba330fdb8ee0d6c0d68fe82bc96be \
-    --hash=sha256:ee2922902c45ae8ccada2c5b501ab86c36525b883eff4255313a253a3160861c \
-    --hash=sha256:efd7b85f94a6f21e4932043973a7ba2613b059c4a000551892ac9f1d11f5baf3 \
-    --hash=sha256:f7057c9a337546edc7973c0d3ba84ddcdf0daa14533c2065749c9075001090e6 \
-    --hash=sha256:fa160448684b4e94d80416c0fa4aac48967a969efe22931448d853ada8baf926 \
-    --hash=sha256:fc09d0aa354569bc501d4e787133afc08552722d3ab34836a80547331bb5d4a0
-    # via pre-commit
-virtualenv==21.2.4 \
-    --hash=sha256:29d21e941795206138d0f22f4e45ff7050e5da6c6472299fb7103318763861ac \
-    --hash=sha256:b294ef68192638004d72524ce7ef303e9d0cf5a44c95ce2e54a7500a6381cada
-    # via pre-commit
@@ -58,16 +58,18 @@ jobs:
          MAVEN_USER: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_USER }}
          MAVEN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_PASSWORD }}
          MAVEN_PUBLIC_URL: ${{ secrets.MAVEN_PUBLIC_URL }}
-        run: ./gradlew :stirling-pdf:bootJar -PnoSpotless --no-daemon
+        run: ./gradlew :stirling-pdf:quarkusBuild -PnoSpotless --no-daemon

      - name: Locate built JAR
        id: jar
        run: |
-          jar=$(find app/core/build/libs -maxdepth 1 -name 'Stirling-PDF*.jar' -o -name 'stirling-pdf*.jar' 2>/dev/null \
-              | grep -vE '(-plain|-sources)\.jar$' | head -n 1)
+          # Quarkus (quarkus.package.jar.type=uber-jar) emits a standalone runnable
+          # jar at app/core/build/<name>-runner.jar, replacing the Spring Boot bootJar
+          # that used to land in app/core/build/libs.
+          jar=$(find app/core/build -maxdepth 1 -name '*-runner.jar' 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)
          if [[ -z "$jar" ]]; then
-            echo "::error::No JAR under app/core/build/libs"
-            ls -lah app/core/build/libs || true
+            echo "::error::No *-runner.jar under app/core/build"
+            ls -lah app/core/build || true
            exit 1
          fi
          # Absolute path - the migration script pushd's into a temp workdir
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 name: Pre-commit

-# Runs `pre-commit run` for ruff / codespell / gitleaks / EOF / trailing-ws.
-# Called from build.yml on PRs and merge_group; also runnable on demand via
-# workflow_dispatch for manual local-equivalent linting.
+# Runs the repo-wide lint/format/secret checks via `task pre-commit`.
+# Called from build.yml on PRs and merge_group; also runnable on demand via workflow_dispatch.
 on:
  workflow_call:
  workflow_dispatch:
@@ -13,10 +12,6 @@ permissions:
 jobs:
  pre-commit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    env:
-      # Prevents sdist builds → no tar extraction
-      PIP_ONLY_BINARY: ":all:"
-      PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK: "1"
    steps:
      - name: Harden Runner
        uses: step-security/harden-runner@ab7a9404c0f3da075243ca237b5fac12c98deaa5 # v2.19.3
@@ -29,23 +24,13 @@ jobs:
          fetch-depth: 0
          persist-credentials: false

-      - name: Set up Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+      - name: Install uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@08807647e7069bb48b6ef5acd8ec9567f424441b # v8.1.0
        with:
-          python-version: 3.12
-          cache: "pip" # caching pip dependencies
-          cache-dependency-path: ./.github/scripts/requirements_pre_commit.txt
+          enable-cache: true

-      - name: Run Pre-Commit Hooks
-        run: |
-          pip install --require-hashes --only-binary=:all: -r ./.github/scripts/requirements_pre_commit.txt
+      - name: Install Task
+        uses: go-task/setup-task@3be4020d41929789a01026e0e427a4321ce0ad44 # v2.0.0

-      - name: Run Pre-Commit
-        run: |
-          pre-commit run ruff --all-files -c .pre-commit-config.yaml
-          pre-commit run ruff-format --all-files -c .pre-commit-config.yaml
-          pre-commit run codespell --all-files -c .pre-commit-config.yaml
-          pre-commit run gitleaks --all-files -c .pre-commit-config.yaml
-          pre-commit run end-of-file-fixer --all-files -c .pre-commit-config.yaml
-          pre-commit run trailing-whitespace --all-files -c .pre-commit-config.yaml
-          git diff --exit-code
+      - name: Run pre-commit checks
+        run: task pre-commit
@@ -58,15 +58,23 @@ jobs:

      - name: Install Python dependencies
        run: |
-          pip install --require-hashes --only-binary=:all: -r ./.github/scripts/requirements_sync_readme.txt -r ./.github/scripts/requirements_pre_commit.txt
+          pip install --require-hashes --only-binary=:all: -r ./.github/scripts/requirements_sync_readme.txt
+
+      - name: Install uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@08807647e7069bb48b6ef5acd8ec9567f424441b # v8.1.0
+        with:
+          enable-cache: true
+
+      - name: Install Task
+        uses: go-task/setup-task@3be4020d41929789a01026e0e427a4321ce0ad44 # v2.0.0

      - name: Sync translation TOML files
        run: |
          python .github/scripts/check_language_toml.py --reference-file "frontend/editor/public/locales/en-US/translation.toml" --branch main

-      - name: pre-commit run
+      - name: Sort translation TOML files
        run: |
-          pre-commit run toml-sort-fix --all-files
+          task pre-commit:toml-sort FIX=1

      - name: Commit translation files
        run: |
@@ -42,10 +42,20 @@ SwaggerDoc.json
 # Runtime storage for uploaded files and user data (not Java source code)
 app/core/storage/

-# Frontend build artifacts copied to backend static resources
-# These are generated by npm build and should not be committed
-app/core/src/main/resources/static/assets/
+# Frontend build artifacts copied to Quarkus static resources
+# Generated by `npm build` + the copyFrontendAssets/copyFrontendIndexHtml tasks; never committed.
+# The React bundle goes to META-INF/resources/ (Quarkus serves these over HTTP); index.html is the
+# only generated file in static/ (ReactRoutingController serves it). See app/core/build.gradle.
+app/core/src/main/resources/META-INF/resources/
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/index.html
+# Migration cleanup: earlier builds emitted the whole bundle into static/. Keep these ignored so
+# any stale generated assets left in static/ are not accidentally committed.
+app/core/src/main/resources/static/assets/
+# Prerendered per-route SPA pages (OG/social-preview), e.g. compress.html. api-landing.html is source.
+app/core/src/main/resources/static/*.html
+!app/core/src/main/resources/static/api-landing.html
+# Prerendered nested-route pages (e.g. settings/people.html)
+app/core/src/main/resources/static/settings/
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/locales/
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/Login/
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/classic-logo/
@@ -53,13 +63,15 @@ app/core/src/main/resources/static/modern-logo/
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/og_images/
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/samples/
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/manifest-classic.json
+app/core/src/main/resources/static/og-metadata.json
+app/core/src/main/resources/static/sw-folder-retry.js
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/robots.txt
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/pdfium/
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/pdfjs/
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/vendor/
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/**/*.gz
 app/core/src/main/resources/static/**/*.br
-# Note: Keep backend-managed files like fonts/, css/, js/, pdfjs/, etc.
+# Note: Keep backend-managed files like fonts/, css/, js/, etc.

 # Gradle
 .gradle
@@ -273,8 +285,23 @@ docs/type3/signatures/

 **/application-dev-local.properties

-# Claude
+# AI agent session/local files - may contain tokens and secrets
 .claude/
+.agents/
+.cursor/
+.codex/
+.opencode/
+.copilot/
+.cline/
+.continue/
+.windsurf/
+.junie/
+.pi/
+.roo/
+.augment/
+.aider*
+CLAUDE.local.md
+skills-lock.json

 # Playwright MCP screenshots / traces
 .playwright-mcp/
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# PostHog project-level key — phc_ prefix keys are public/client-side by design
+# PostHog project-level key - phc_ prefix keys are public/client-side by design
 # (PostHog client-side tracking embeds them in the browser bundle). Committed
 # intentionally in #6150 so engine/.env has a working default, with real
 # credentials overridden via engine/.env.local.
@@ -12,3 +12,10 @@ app/proprietary/src/test/java/stirling/software/proprietary/mcp/security/McpApiK
 testing/compose/docker-compose-keycloak-mcp.yml:generic-api-key:25
 testing/compose/validate-mcp-apikey.sh:curl-auth-header:73
 testing/compose/validate-mcp-test.sh:curl-auth-header:92
+testing/compose/validate-mcp-test.sh:curl-auth-header:116
+
+# Storybook example showing curl with a fake Bearer token placeholder (sk_live_a3f8...).
+frontend/shared/components/CodeBlock.stories.tsx:curl-auth-header:4
+
+# Truncated placeholder API key in portal docs example (sk_live_8f2c...e10) - not a real secret.
+frontend/portal/src/components/docs/GettingStartedSection.tsx:generic-api-key:31
@@ -1,52 +1,14 @@
+# The actual checks live in .taskfiles/pre-commit.yml (with helper scripts under
+# scripts/pre-commit/) and are driven by Task. This hook just delegates to `task
+# pre-commit` so the git pre-commit hook, CI and a manual `task pre-commit` all
+# run the exact same thing. Requires `task` and `uv` on PATH. To auto-fix instead
+# of only checking, run `task pre-commit:fix`.
 repos:
-  - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
-    rev: v0.15.14
+  - repo: local
    hooks:
-      - id: ruff
-        args:
-          - --fix
-          - --line-length=127
-        files: ^((\.github/scripts|scripts|app/core/src/main/resources/static/python)/.+)?[^/]+\.py$
-        exclude: (split_photos.py)
-      - id: ruff-format
-        files: ^((\.github/scripts|scripts|app/core/src/main/resources/static/python)/.+)?[^/]+\.py$
-        exclude: (split_photos.py)
-  - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
-    rev: v2.4.2
-    hooks:
-      - id: codespell
-        args:
-          - --ignore-words-list=thirdParty,tabEl,tabEls,Sie,ist,fulfilment
-          - --skip="./.*,*.csv,*.json,*.ambr"
-          - --quiet-level=2
-        files: \.(html|css|js|py|md)$
-        exclude: (.vscode|.devcontainer|app/core/src/main/resources|app/proprietary/src/main/resources|frontend/editor/public/vendor|Dockerfile|.*/pdfjs.*|.*/thirdParty.*|bootstrap.*|.*\.min\..*|.*diff\.js)
-  - repo: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks
-    rev: v8.30.0
-    hooks:
-      - id: gitleaks
-  - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
-    rev: v6.0.0
-    hooks:
-      - id: end-of-file-fixer
-        files: ^.*(\.js|\.java|\.py|\.yml)$
-        exclude: ^(.*/pdfjs.*|.*/thirdParty.*|bootstrap.*|.*\.min\..*|.*diff\.js|\.github/workflows/.*$)
-      - id: trailing-whitespace
-        files: ^.*(\.js|\.java|\.py|\.yml)$
-        exclude: ^(.*/pdfjs.*|.*/thirdParty.*|bootstrap.*|.*\.min\..*|.*diff\.js|\.github/workflows/.*$)
-  - repo: https://github.com/pappasam/toml-sort
-    rev: v0.24.4
-    hooks:
-      - id: toml-sort-fix
-        files: frontend/editor/public/locales/.*\.toml$
-        args: ['--in-place', '--all', '--ignore-case']
-  # - repo: https://github.com/thibaudcolas/pre-commit-stylelint
-  #   rev: v16.21.1
-  #   hooks:
-  #     - id: stylelint
-  #       additional_dependencies:
-  #         - stylelint@16.21.1
-  #         - stylelint-config-standard@38.0.0
-  #         - "@stylistic/stylelint-plugin@3.1.3"
-  #       files: \.(css)$
-  #       args: [--fix]
+      - id: task-pre-commit
+        name: task pre-commit
+        entry: task pre-commit
+        language: system
+        pass_filenames: false
+        always_run: true
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ tasks:
        vars:
          PORT: '{{.PORT}}'
          AIENGINE_URL: '{{.AIENGINE_URL}}'
+          AIENGINE_ENABLED: '{{.AIENGINE_ENABLED}}'
          AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS: '{{.AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS}}'

  dev:proprietary:
@@ -31,13 +32,14 @@ tasks:
    vars:
      PORT: '{{.PORT | default "8080"}}'
      AIENGINE_URL: '{{.AIENGINE_URL | default ""}}'
+      AIENGINE_ENABLED: '{{.AIENGINE_ENABLED | default "false"}}'
      AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS: '{{.AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS | default "120"}}'
    env:
      SERVER_PORT: '{{.PORT}}'
    cmds:
-      - cmd: '{{if .AIENGINE_URL}}AIENGINE_URL={{.AIENGINE_URL}} AIENGINE_ENABLED=true AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS={{.AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS}} {{end}}cmd /c ".\gradlew.bat :stirling-pdf:bootRun"'
+      - cmd: '{{if .AIENGINE_URL}}AIENGINE_URL={{.AIENGINE_URL}} AIENGINE_ENABLED={{.AIENGINE_ENABLED}} AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS={{.AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS}} {{end}}cmd /c ".\gradlew.bat :stirling-pdf:bootRun"'
        platforms: [windows]
-      - cmd: '{{if .AIENGINE_URL}}AIENGINE_URL={{.AIENGINE_URL}} AIENGINE_ENABLED=true AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS={{.AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS}} {{end}}./gradlew :stirling-pdf:bootRun'
+      - cmd: '{{if .AIENGINE_URL}}AIENGINE_URL={{.AIENGINE_URL}} AIENGINE_ENABLED={{.AIENGINE_ENABLED}} AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS={{.AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS}} {{end}}./gradlew :stirling-pdf:bootRun'
        platforms: [linux, darwin]

  dev:bundled:
@@ -60,12 +62,13 @@ tasks:
      # Override to "" to run the pure `saas` profile against your own SAAS_DB_*.
      PROFILES: '{{.PROFILES | default "dev"}}'
      AIENGINE_URL: '{{.AIENGINE_URL | default ""}}'
+      AIENGINE_ENABLED: '{{.AIENGINE_ENABLED | default "false"}}'
      AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS: '{{.AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS | default "120"}}'
    env:
      SERVER_PORT: '{{.PORT}}'
      STIRLING_FLAVOR: saas
      AIENGINE_URL: '{{.AIENGINE_URL}}'
-      AIENGINE_ENABLED: '{{if .AIENGINE_URL}}true{{else}}false{{end}}'
+      AIENGINE_ENABLED: '{{.AIENGINE_ENABLED}}'
      AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS: '{{.AIENGINE_TIMEOUTSECONDS}}'
    cmds:
      - cmd: cmd /c ".\gradlew.bat :stirling-pdf:bootRun {{if .PROFILES}}--args=\"--spring.profiles.include={{.PROFILES}}\"{{end}}"
@@ -40,6 +40,21 @@ tasks:
    cmds:
      - node editor/scripts/generate-icons.js

+  prepare:og:
+    internal: true
+    run: when_changed
+    desc: "Regenerate OG/social-preview metadata from the tool registry"
+    cmds:
+      - node editor/scripts/generate-og-metadata.mjs
+    sources:
+      - editor/src/core/types/toolId.ts
+      - editor/src/core/utils/urlMapping.ts
+      - editor/src/core/data/useTranslatedToolRegistry.tsx
+      - editor/public/og_images/*.png
+    generates:
+      - editor/src/core/data/ogImageMap.json
+      - editor/public/og-metadata.json
+
  prepare:
    desc: "Set up dev environment"
    run: when_changed
@@ -49,6 +64,7 @@ tasks:
      - task: prepare:env
        vars: { MODE: '{{.MODE}}' }
      - prepare:icons
+      - prepare:og

  # ============================================================
  # Development
@@ -317,9 +333,17 @@ tasks:
      - task: format:check
      - task: test

+  og:check:
+    desc: "Fail if committed OG/social-preview metadata is out of date"
+    cmds:
+      - node editor/scripts/generate-og-metadata.mjs --check
+
  check:all:
    desc: "Full CI quality gate"
    cmds:
+      # Runs first, before prepare regenerates: guards the committed og-metadata.json /
+      # ogImageMap.json that the Cloudflare Pages (plain `vite build`) deploy relies on.
+      - task: og:check
      - task: typecheck:all
      - task: lint
      - task: format:check
@@ -374,3 +398,15 @@ tasks:
    deps: [install]
    cmds:
      - node editor/scripts/generate-licenses.js
+
+  # ============================================================
+  # Clean
+  # ============================================================
+
+  clean:
+    desc: "Clean build artifacts and caches"
+    cmds:
+      - cmd: powershell rm -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue node_modules/.vite, editor/dist, dist, dist-portal
+        platforms: [windows]
+      - cmd: rm -rf node_modules/.vite editor/dist dist dist-portal
+        platforms: [linux, darwin]
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+version: '3'
+
+# Repo-wide lint/format/secret checks - the single source of truth that the git
+# pre-commit hook (.pre-commit-config.yaml) and CI (pre_commit.yml) both call.
+
+vars:
+  GITLEAKS: '8.30.0'
+
+  # File selections as git pathspecs: git does the include/exclude matching, so
+  # there is no grep/xargs and it behaves identically on every platform.
+  PY_FILES: >-
+    'scripts/*.py'
+    '.github/scripts/*.py'
+    'app/core/src/main/resources/static/python/*.py'
+    ':(exclude)*split_photos.py'
+  SPELL_FILES: >-
+    '*.html'
+    '*.css'
+    '*.js'
+    '*.py'
+    '*.md'
+    ':(exclude).vscode/*'
+    ':(exclude).devcontainer/*'
+    ':(exclude)app/core/src/main/resources/*'
+    ':(exclude)app/proprietary/src/main/resources/*'
+    ':(exclude)frontend/editor/public/vendor/*'
+    ':(exclude)*Dockerfile*'
+    ':(exclude)*pdfjs*'
+    ':(exclude)*thirdParty*'
+    ':(exclude)*bootstrap*'
+    ':(exclude)*.min.*'
+    ':(exclude)*diff.js'
+  WS_FILES: >-
+    '*.js'
+    '*.java'
+    '*.py'
+    '*.yml'
+    ':(exclude)*pdfjs*'
+    ':(exclude)*thirdParty*'
+    ':(exclude)*bootstrap*'
+    ':(exclude)*.min.*'
+    ':(exclude)*diff.js'
+    ':(exclude).github/workflows/*'
+  LOCALE_TOML: 'frontend/editor/public/locales/*/translation.toml'
+
+  GITLEAKS_BIN: '.task/bin/gitleaks-{{.GITLEAKS}}{{if eq OS "windows"}}.exe{{end}}'
+
+tasks:
+  default:
+    desc: "Check formatting, spelling, and secrets across the repo"
+    cmds:
+      - task: ruff
+      - task: ruff-format
+      - task: codespell
+      - task: gitleaks
+      - task: whitespace
+      - task: toml-sort
+
+  fix:
+    desc: "Auto-fix formatting, spelling, and secrets issues across the repo"
+    cmds:
+      # Auto-fixers first, then the report-only tools (codespell, gitleaks) so a
+      # finding there does not stop the fixers from running.
+      - task: ruff
+        vars: { FIX: '1' }
+      - task: ruff-format
+        vars: { FIX: '1' }
+      - task: whitespace
+        vars: { FIX: '1' }
+      - task: toml-sort
+        vars: { FIX: '1' }
+      - task: codespell
+      - task: gitleaks
+
+  install:
+    desc: "Install the pinned pre-commit Python tools (ruff, codespell, toml-sort)"
+    run: once
+    cmds:
+      - uv sync --project scripts/pre-commit --locked
+    sources:
+      - scripts/pre-commit/uv.lock
+      - scripts/pre-commit/pyproject.toml
+    status:
+      - test -d scripts/pre-commit/.venv
+
+  clean:
+    desc: "Remove the cache/build artifacts"
+    cmds:
+      - task: '{{if eq OS "windows"}}clean-windows{{else}}clean-unix{{end}}'
+
+  clean-unix:
+    internal: true
+    cmds:
+      - rm -rf scripts/pre-commit/.venv .task/bin/gitleaks-*
+
+  # On Windows, use PowerShell so it matches the same paths and tolerates absent
+  # files without erroring.
+  clean-windows:
+    internal: true
+    ignore_error: true
+    cmds:
+      - powershell -NoProfile -Command "Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue scripts/pre-commit/.venv, .task/bin/gitleaks-*"
+
+  # Individual checks (hidden from `task --list`, but callable, e.g.
+  # `task pre-commit:toml-sort FIX=1`). Pass FIX=1 to auto-fix where supported.
+  ruff:
+    deps: [install]
+    cmds:
+      - uv run --project scripts/pre-commit --no-sync ruff check --line-length=127 {{if .FIX}}--fix {{end}}$(git ls-files {{.PY_FILES}})
+
+  ruff-format:
+    deps: [install]
+    cmds:
+      - uv run --project scripts/pre-commit --no-sync ruff format {{if .FIX}}{{else}}--check {{end}}$(git ls-files {{.PY_FILES}})
+
+  codespell:
+    deps: [install]
+    cmds:
+      - uv run --project scripts/pre-commit --no-sync codespell --ignore-words-list=thirdParty,tabEl,tabEls,Sie,ist,fulfilment,vertx --quiet-level=2 $(git ls-files {{.SPELL_FILES}})
+
+  toml-sort:
+    deps: [install]
+    cmds:
+      - uv run --project scripts/pre-commit --no-sync toml-sort --all --ignore-case {{if .FIX}}--in-place{{else}}--check{{end}} {{.LOCALE_TOML}}
+
+  whitespace:
+    cmds:
+      - uv run --no-project python scripts/pre-commit/whitespace.py {{if .FIX}}--fix {{end}}$(git ls-files {{.WS_FILES}})
+
+  gitleaks:
+    deps: [gitleaks-bin]
+    # Scan staged changes only, matching the old hook: the git-mode fingerprints
+    # in .gitleaksignore (file:rule:line) still apply, and with nothing staged
+    # this is a no-op. Secrets are never auto-fixed, so FIX has no effect.
+    cmds:
+      - "{{.GITLEAKS_BIN}} git --pre-commit --redact --staged --verbose"
+
+  gitleaks-bin:
+    internal: true
+    desc: "Ensure the pinned gitleaks binary is cached in .task/bin"
+    status:
+      - test -f {{.GITLEAKS_BIN}}
+    vars:
+      GL_ARCH: '{{if eq ARCH "amd64"}}x64{{else if eq ARCH "arm64"}}arm64{{else if eq ARCH "386"}}x32{{else}}{{ARCH}}{{end}}'
+      GL_PLATFORM: '{{OS}}_{{.GL_ARCH}}'
+      GL_URL: 'https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/releases/download/v{{.GITLEAKS}}/gitleaks_{{.GITLEAKS}}_{{.GL_PLATFORM}}'
+      # SHA-256 of each release asset, from gitleaks_{{.GITLEAKS}}_checksums.txt.
+      GL_SHA: >-
+        {{if eq .GL_PLATFORM "linux_x64"}}79a3ab579b53f71efd634f3aaf7e04a0fa0cf206b7ed434638d1547a2470a66e
+        {{- else if eq .GL_PLATFORM "linux_arm64"}}b4cbbb6ddf7d1b2a603088cd03a4e3f7ce48ee7fd449b51f7de6ee2906f5fa2f
+        {{- else if eq .GL_PLATFORM "darwin_x64"}}ca221d012d247080c2f6f61f4b7a83bffa2453806b0c195c795bbe9a8c775ed5
+        {{- else if eq .GL_PLATFORM "darwin_arm64"}}b251ab2bcd4cd8ba9e56ff37698c033ebf38582b477d21ebd86586d927cf87e7
+        {{- else if eq .GL_PLATFORM "windows_x64"}}54fe94f644b832dd08e8c3a5915efb3bfa862386d59fb27ca0792cb687a83573
+        {{- end}}
+    cmds:
+      - cmd: bash scripts/pre-commit/install-gitleaks.sh "{{.GL_URL}}.tar.gz" "{{.GL_SHA}}" "{{.GITLEAKS_BIN}}"
+        platforms: [linux, darwin]
+      - cmd: powershell -NoProfile -File scripts/pre-commit/install-gitleaks.ps1 -Url "{{.GL_URL}}.zip" -Sha "{{.GL_SHA}}" -Dest "{{.GITLEAKS_BIN}}"
+        platforms: [windows]
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ What goes where:

 Rule of thumb — **move, don't copy**: share via `cloud/`, override by shadowing the same `@app/*` path in a leaf (`saas/` or `desktop/`).

+**Cloud feature flags on desktop.** The local `AppConfigContext` reads `/api/v1/config/app-config` from the LOCAL bundled backend, so cloud-only flags (`aiEngineEnabled`, `premiumEnabled`, …) are never seen on desktop. To read the cloud's view, use `useSaasAppConfig()` (`desktop/hooks/useSaasAppConfig.ts`, backed by the general `saasAppConfigService` — SaaS-mode-only, public endpoint, native HTTP, 5-min cache). It returns `null` outside SaaS mode, so cloud features stay off in local/self-hosted and the server keeps the on/off switch (no desktop release needed to flip a flag). Gate a feature behind a per-platform seam — e.g. `useAiEngineEnabled()` (core reads `useAppConfig()`, desktop reads `useSaasAppConfig()`) — rather than hardcoding the flag on.
+
 #### Component Override Pattern (Stub/Shadow)
 Use this pattern for desktop-specific or proprietary-specific features WITHOUT runtime checks or conditionals.

@@ -0,0 +1,563 @@
+# Stirling-PDF: Spring Boot → Quarkus Migration — Continuation Handoff
+
+> **Purpose:** everything needed to resume this migration in a fresh session. Read this top-to-bottom
+> before touching anything. Companion doc `migration-report.md` has the higher-level summary; this
+> file is the working/continuation guide with the concrete state, commands, fixed bugs, remaining
+> bugs, and the recurring patterns you need to apply.
+
+---
+
+## 0. TL;DR status
+
+- **2026-06-19 — merged `main` (136 commits) into `migration/run-02`.** Resolved 69 conflicts and
+  did **full Spring removal + Quarkus migration of every newly pulled-in file** (36 Spring-bearing
+  files: 21 proprietary + 15 saas). Net effect on main: legacy credits engine deleted (#6687,
+  replaced by PAYG #6589); the proprietary **policy** subsystem and the new **PAYG** subsystem
+  migrated to CDI/JAX-RS/Panache. Verified: 0 conflict markers, 0 `org.springframework` imports in
+  any main source. **`core` + `proprietary` compile; `proprietary` Quarkus-augments + boots + serves
+  real traffic; `saas` now compiles AND augments too** (previously ~28 CDI issues). Cross-file fix:
+  `PolicyExecutor`/`DownstreamEntitlementError` now carry HTTP status+body via
+  `jakarta.ws.rs.WebApplicationException` (was Spring `RestClientResponseException`);
+  `AiWorkflowService.paygLimitResponseOrNull` rewired to it. Repo `save()` shim added to the Panache
+  repos whose callers/tests expect Spring-Data `save()`.
+- **Branch:** `migration/run-01` (all work committed locally, **nothing pushed** — `origin` is the
+  public `Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF` repo; do not push without the owner's say-so).
+- **Default flavor (`proprietary`):** compiles, Quarkus-augments, boots, and serves real traffic in
+  Docker. ✅
+- **Cucumber API e2e (full-tool Docker image):** baselines, newest first:
+  - **Run 2 (login off, this session's fixes, no JWT mechanism): 223 / 258 pass**, 35 failed, 80
+    skipped. Up from the prior **183 / 258** baseline (+40). Eliminated buckets: split
+    `PDF corrupted` 8→0, `FileAlreadyExists` 8→0, `Admin login failed (500)` 17→0.
+  - **Run 3 (login off + `V2=true` + the new JWT Bearer mechanism): the 80 JWT/admin scenarios now
+    RUN (0 skipped)** because the `login → /me` probe passes. See §6.E / "Session 2". Final tally
+    recorded in §9.
+- **Stack:** Quarkus 3.33.2 LTS, **Java 25** (mandatory — see §2), Hibernate ORM Panache,
+  quarkus-rest (RESTEasy Reactive), quarkus-oidc, quarkus-undertow (servlet, for filters), OpenSAML 5.
+- **`saas` flavor:** compiles but full augmentation has ~28 CDI issues (design-level follow-up).
+- **JWT Bearer login:** ✅ works end-to-end (token issue + validate → `SecurityIdentity`, role
+  mapping, `@RolesAllowed`). **OAuth2/OIDC + SAML2 SSO:** ✅ both work end-to-end against the
+  `testing/compose` Keycloak stacks; `validate-oauth-test.sh` and `validate-saml-test.sh` both pass
+  (see §6.F). The default e2e Docker image + build helper are committed at `docker/quarkus/` (§3.3).
+
+---
+
+## 1. Repo / flavor layout
+
+Multi-module Gradle build, three selectable flavors via `STIRLING_FLAVOR` (or `ENABLE_SAAS` /
+`DISABLE_ADDITIONAL_FEATURES`):
+
+| Flavor | Modules included | Notes |
+|--------|------------------|-------|
+| `core` | `:common`, `:stirling-pdf` (core) | OSS only |
+| `proprietary` (**default**) | + `:proprietary` | what all the e2e work targets |
+| `saas` | + `:saas` | opt-in: `STIRLING_FLAVOR=saas`; not yet augmentable |
+
+Module → directory:
+- `:stirling-pdf` → `app/core` (the runnable Quarkus app; applies the `io.quarkus` gradle plugin)
+- `:common` → `app/common` (library; CDI beans / JAX-RS / entities)
+- `:proprietary` → `app/proprietary` (library)
+- `:saas` → `app/saas` (library, only on saas flavor)
+
+Quarkus only discovers beans/entities in dependency jars that carry a **Jandex index**; the library
+modules are indexed via `quarkus.index-dependency.*` in
+`app/core/src/main/resources/application.properties`.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Java 25 is mandatory (don't regress this)
+
+- The build uses a **JDK 25 toolchain** (`build.gradle` `subprojects { java { toolchain = 25 } }`).
+- The app is compiled to **class-file version 69 (Java 25)** — it will NOT run on JDK 21.
+- **The host's default `java` on the PATH is JDK 21.** Use the toolchain JDK 25 explicitly:
+  - `JAVA_HOME` points to a Temurin 25 JDK (`C:\Users\systo\scoop\apps\temurin25-jdk\current`).
+  - In Git Bash run the jar with `"$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" -jar ...` (host `java` = 21 → `UnsupportedClassVersionError`).
+- The Docker base image `stirlingtools/stirling-pdf-base:1.0.2` ships **Temurin 25.0.2** — so the
+  container runtime is JDK 25 already. Keep it that way; do not switch the base image to a JRE < 25.
+- Gradle build images / CI also pin `gradle:9.3.1-jdk25` and `eclipse-temurin:25-jre-noble`.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Build → package → run → test (the exact loop)
+
+### 3.1 Build the runnable jar
+```bash
+./gradlew :stirling-pdf:quarkusBuild -x test --console=plain
+```
+- Produces the **runnable uber-jar** at: `app/core/build/stirling-pdf-2.12.0-runner.jar`
+  - `Main-Class: stirling.software.SPDF.SPDFApplication`.
+- ⚠️ **GOTCHA:** `app/core/build/libs/stirling-pdf-2.12.0.jar` is the *plain* (non-runnable) jar with
+  an empty manifest. The upstream `docker/embedded/Dockerfile` copies `libs/*.jar` — that's now the
+  WRONG jar. Always use the `-runner.jar`. (`quarkus.package.jar.type=uber-jar` is set in
+  application.properties.)
+- ⚠️ If the build fails with `Unable to delete .../-runner.jar`, a previous `java -jar` is still
+  holding it. Kill it: PowerShell `Get-CimInstance Win32_Process -Filter "Name='java.exe'" | ?{ $_.CommandLine -like '*stirling-pdf-2.12.0-runner*' } | %{ Stop-Process -Id $_.ProcessId -Force }`.
+
+### 3.2 Run standalone for a quick boot check (host JDK 25, fastest)
+```bash
+SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN=false QUARKUS_HTTP_PORT=8095 \
+QUARKUS_DATASOURCE_JDBC_URL="jdbc:h2:mem:t;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1;MODE=PostgreSQL" \
+nohup "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" -jar app/core/build/stirling-pdf-2.12.0-runner.jar > /tmp/boot.log 2>&1 &
+# success line in log: "Stirling-PDF running on port: 8095"  (this app does NOT print Quarkus' "Listening on")
+```
+Health: `curl localhost:8095/api/v1/info/status` → `{"version":"2.12.0","status":"UP"}`.
+
+### 3.3 The "normal" Docker image (full tools) — what the cucumber e2e uses
+The upstream `docker/embedded/Dockerfile` is **Spring-Boot-specific** (uses
+`java -Djarmode=tools -jar app.jar extract --layers` + `spring-boot-loader` layers) and does NOT
+work with the Quarkus jar. For e2e I built an ad-hoc image layering the runner-jar on the prebuilt
+**base image** (which already has Java 25 + LibreOffice + Tesseract + qpdf + Ghostscript + Calibre +
+Python). **This Dockerfile lives in a temp dir and needs to be committed into the repo** (see §6 TODO).
+
+Build context (currently ephemeral at the bash path `/tmp/sp-full` =
+`C:\Users\systo\AppData\Local\Temp\sp-full`): `app.jar` (the runner jar), `fonts/*.ttf`, and this
+Dockerfile:
+```dockerfile
+FROM stirlingtools/stirling-pdf-base:1.0.2          # Java 25 + all tools
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY --chown=1000:1000 app.jar /app/app.jar
+COPY fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
+RUN fc-cache -f \
+    && mkdir -p /storage \
+    && chown stirlingpdfuser:stirlingpdfgroup /storage /app \
+    && ln -sf /configs /app/configs && ln -sf /logs /app/logs \
+    && ln -sf /customFiles /app/customFiles && ln -sf /pipeline /app/pipeline \
+    && ln -sf /storage /app/storage \
+    && chown -h stirlingpdfuser:stirlingpdfgroup /app/configs /app/logs /app/customFiles /app/pipeline /app/storage
+ENV HOME=/home/stirlingpdfuser STIRLING_TEMPFILES_DIRECTORY=/tmp/stirling-pdf \
+    TMPDIR=/tmp/stirling-pdf TEMP=/tmp/stirling-pdf TMP=/tmp/stirling-pdf \
+    SAL_TMP=/tmp/stirling-pdf/libre DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=/dev/null \
+    JAVA_OPTS="-XX:+UseG1GC -Djava.awt.headless=true" \
+    QUARKUS_HTTP_HOST=0.0.0.0 QUARKUS_HTTP_PORT=8080
+EXPOSE 8080/tcp
+STOPSIGNAL SIGTERM
+USER stirlingpdfuser
+ENTRYPOINT ["sh", "-c", "exec java $JAVA_OPTS -jar /app/app.jar"]
+```
+Stage + build + run:
+```bash
+# stage (bash /tmp resolves to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp)
+mkdir -p /tmp/sp-full/fonts
+cp app/core/build/stirling-pdf-2.12.0-runner.jar /tmp/sp-full/app.jar
+cp app/core/src/main/resources/static/fonts/*.ttf /tmp/sp-full/fonts/
+# (write the Dockerfile above to C:\Users\systo\AppData\Local\Temp\sp-full\Dockerfile)
+cd /tmp/sp-full && docker build -t stirling-pdf-quarkus:full .
+docker rm -f sp-e2e
+docker run -d --name sp-e2e -p 8080:8080 \
+  -e SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN=false -e METRICS_ENABLED=true \
+  -e SYSTEM_DEFAULTLOCALE=en-US -e SYSTEM_MAXFILESIZE=100 \
+  stirling-pdf-quarkus:full
+# wait for: curl localhost:8080/api/v1/info/status == 200
+```
+Base image was pulled with `docker pull stirlingtools/stirling-pdf-base:1.0.2`.
+
+### 3.4 Run the cucumber (behave) suite
+- Tests live in `testing/cucumber/` — Python **behave** (BDD), pure HTTP via `requests` (no browser).
+- **Target URL is hardcoded `http://localhost:8080`** in `features/steps/step_definitions.py`
+  (lines ~584/592/601) and `features/environment.py`. Easiest is to run the app on 8080.
+- `behave.ini` excludes `features/(enterprise|payg)` and tag `~@manual` by default.
+- `environment.py` probes `/api/v1/auth/login` (admin/stirling) at startup; if JWT/login is not
+  functional (login disabled / V2) it **skips** all `@jwt @login @me @refresh @token @mfa @apikey
+  @admin_settings @audit @signature @team @user_mgmt` scenarios → ~80 skips. That's expected.
+
+Install deps + run:
+```bash
+cd testing/cucumber
+pip install -r requirements.txt        # behave, requests, pypdf, reportlab, psycopg, pillow, ...
+TEST_CONTAINER_NAME=sp-e2e TEST_REPORT_DIR=/tmp python -m behave --no-capture --format progress2
+# single feature:  python -m behave features/general.feature
+# one scenario:    python -m behave features/general.feature:22 --format plain
+```
+The official CI driver is `testing/test.sh` (builds images via `docker/embedded/Dockerfile.*` and
+runs behave) — it will need the Dockerfile fixes from §6 before it works on Quarkus.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Bugs FIXED this session (with the *why*, so you can spot siblings)
+
+### Session 2 (branch `claude/happy-chaplygin-906fe7`, fast-forwarded from `migration/run-01`)
+
+Newest first. These took the login-off suite **183 → 223** and then wired JWT so the **80 skipped
+JWT/admin scenarios run** (run 3, §9):
+
+1. **JWT Bearer → `SecurityIdentity` was never populated** → every user-scoped endpoint that reads
+   `SecurityIdentity.getPrincipal()` (folders, files, `/me`, user/team settings…) failed, and the
+   `environment.py` probe (`login → /me`) failed so ~80 scenarios auto-skipped. Added a custom
+   `HttpAuthenticationMechanism` + `IdentityProvider` in
+   `app/proprietary/.../security/identity/` (`JwtBearerAuthenticationMechanism`,
+   `JwtTokenIdentityProvider`): extract `Authorization: Bearer`, validate via the existing
+   `JwtService` (jjwt + keystore), build a `QuarkusSecurityIdentity` and map the `role` claim
+   (`ROLE_ADMIN` → also add `ADMIN` so `@RolesAllowed("ADMIN")` matches). Returns no identity when
+   no Bearer is present, so the X-API-KEY / login-off open-endpoint path is unaffected. **This is the
+   IdentityProvider that ~10 `// TODO: Migration required` comments across the security/storage code
+   asked for.** Run with `V2=true`.
+2. **No admin user was ever created** → all logins failed "No user found: admin". `InitialSecuritySetup`
+   was a Spring `@Component` (eagerly constructed, `@PostConstruct` ran every boot); the migration
+   made it a lazy `@ApplicationScoped` whose `@PostConstruct` never ran. Restored eager init via
+   `@Observes StartupEvent`. **Pattern: any migrated `@PostConstruct`-on-`@ApplicationScoped` startup
+   bean with no injector is dead code — grep for them.**
+3. **Eager init then exposed two latent bugs** (both real, both now fixed):
+   - `@Produces @ApplicationScoped DataSource` → Arc generated the client proxy in the JDK-sealed
+     `javax.sql` package → `NoClassDefFoundError` on first use. Fix: `@Singleton` (pseudo-scope, no
+     proxy). **Audit other `@Produces @ApplicationScoped` whose return type is a `java.*`/`javax.*`
+     type.**
+   - Panache `persist()` in the `StartupEvent` observer ran with no transaction (Spring Data wrapped
+     `save()` implicitly). Fix: `@Transactional` on the observer.
+4. **Login returned 500 instead of 401** for unknown user / bad password. `CustomUserDetailsService`
+   threw `IllegalArgumentException`, but `AuthController` catches the migration shim
+   `stirling.software.common.security.UsernameNotFoundException`. Made the service throw the shim
+   type. **Sibling: the locked-account path still throws `IllegalStateException` — wire it similarly
+   when needed.**
+5. **`@Transactional` missing on policy-store reads** (`JpaPolicyStore.all()`,
+   `findByTriggerType()`) → the scheduled folder-watch/schedule triggers threw
+   `ContextNotActiveException` off-request (§6.C). The reads are reached via the CDI proxy so a
+   method-level `@Transactional` applies even from the background virtual-thread executor.
+6. **Split scenarios sent a duplicate `fileInput` text part** (`| fileInput | fileInput |` in
+   `general.feature`) alongside the file part; Quarkus `@RestForm FileUpload` bound the *text* part
+   ("fileInput", 9 bytes) → "PDF corrupted". Spring ignored the stray part. Removed the redundant
+   rows (the file is already attached via the generate step). **Real clients send one part, so this
+   is a test artifact, not a server tolerance gap worth chasing.**
+7. **e2e Docker build is now first-class:** `docker/quarkus/Dockerfile` (+ `README.md`,
+   `build-and-run.sh`) layers the runner-jar on the base image, and `.dockerignore` re-includes
+   `app/core/build/*-runner.jar` (it was excluded by `**/build/`, so a clean `docker build` had been
+   silently relying on BuildKit cache).
+
+### Session 1
+
+1. **`MultipartFile.transferTo` didn't overwrite** (`a30d524ec`).
+   `app/common/.../model/MultipartFile.java` + `.../model/multipart/FileUploadMultipartFile.java`
+   used `Files.copy(in, dest)` without `REPLACE_EXISTING`. Callers do
+   `Files.createTempFile(...)` (creates the file) then `transferTo(thatPath)` → `FileAlreadyExistsException`.
+   Spring's `transferTo` overwrites. **Fixed** by adding `StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING`.
+   Fixes the whole class of `/api/v1/misc/*` failures (scanner-effect, replace-invert, ocr,
+   update-metadata, unlock-pdf-forms, repair, extract-image-scans, add-page-numbers, …).
+
+2. **`maxDPI` defaulted to 0** (`a30d524ec`).
+   `ApplicationProperties.System.maxDPI` is a primitive `int` (→ 0 when not bound from settings).
+   Every DPI guard (`dpi > maxDPI`) then failed with *"maximum safe limit of 0"*. The
+   `settings.yml.template` default is 500. **Fixed** by `private int maxDPI = 500;`.
+   ⚠️ Root cause hint: this strongly suggests **settings.yml → ApplicationProperties config binding
+   is incomplete in the Quarkus migration**. Other primitive/unset fields may also be silently
+   wrong. Worth a dedicated audit (see §5).
+
+3. **Request-path `HttpServletRequest` → `UT000048` "No request is currently active"** (`860bd6e63`,
+   `4b572852c`). This was the dominant blocker. `quarkus-rest` (RESTEasy Reactive) runs handlers on
+   reactive/worker threads where the undertow servlet request context is NOT active, so ANY
+   `HttpServletRequest.getX()` throws. Fixed in:
+   - `GlobalExceptionHandler` (an `ExceptionMapper` that threw while handling *every* error, masking
+     the real cause) → `@Context UriInfo` + exception-safe `requestUri()`.
+   - `ControllerAuditAspect`, `AuditAspect` → route through the already-guarded
+     `AuditService.getCurrentRequest()` (returns null off-request) + a guarded `safeResponse()`.
+   - `AutoJobAspect`, `JobExecutorService` → inject `io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.CurrentVertxRequest`,
+     read query-param/method/path/attributes from the Vert.x request, degrade to null/no-op.
+   - `AuthController`, `UserController`, `ConfigController` → `@Context UriInfo` / `HttpHeaders` /
+     `io.vertx.core.http.HttpServerRequest`.
+   This unblocked the entire `@AutoJobPostMapping` chain (most PDF endpoints).
+
+4. **License singleton PK race** (`860bd6e63`). `UserLicenseSettings` has a manually-assigned
+   `@Id = 1L`. Spring Data `save()` on a non-new (pre-set-id) entity does a **MERGE (upsert)**; the
+   migration converted it to `persist()` (INSERT-only). The startup license sync raced the first
+   request, both inserted id=1 → `JdbcSQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException` → app crash. **Fixed**
+   in `UserLicenseSettingsService.getOrCreateSettings()` with a JVM lock +
+   `io.quarkus.narayana.jta.QuarkusTransaction.requiringNew()` create-once, then reload into the
+   caller's tx. **⚠️ This `save()`→`persist()`-should-be-`merge()` bug almost certainly exists for
+   OTHER manually-`@Id`'d entities — audit them (see §5).**
+
+5. **App couldn't boot without Redis** (`4665cceeb`).
+   - `quarkus.oidc.enabled=false` default (quarkus-oidc aborts startup without `auth-server-url`;
+     re-enable for an OAuth2 deployment).
+   - Valkey backplane beans eagerly injected the inactive `RedisDataSource`. Gated all 7 with
+     **build-time** `@io.quarkus.arc.properties.IfBuildProperty(name="cluster.backplane", stringValue="valkey")`
+     (NOT `@LookupIfProperty` — that leaves the bean in the build, so `RedisDataSource` still has a
+     consumer and Quarkus emits an eager startup observer that fails). Plus
+     `quarkus.redis.health.enabled=false`.
+
+6. **Runtime boot fixes** (`20b25ad76`): `quarkus.hibernate-orm.mapping.format.global=ignore` (JSON
+   columns), Quartz cron `0 0 0 * * MON` → `0 0 0 ? * MON` (Quartz rejects `*` in both day fields),
+   `@Scheduled(every="7d")` → `"P7D"`, `quarkus.arc.fail-on-intercepted-private-method=false`.
+
+7. **CDI augmentation** (`185ac88b3`): interceptor bindings made `@InterceptorBinding`
+   (`@EnterpriseEndpoint`, `@PremiumEndpoint`), a `tools.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper` producer
+   added in `AppConfig` (92 injection points), ambiguous beans resolved (`@DefaultBean`),
+   `Optional<X>`→`Instance<X>`, collection `List<X>`→`@All List<X>`, nested `SAML2` config producer.
+
+8. **Test layer** (`d51228af6`): a content-based exclude in root `build.gradle subprojects` skips any
+   test still importing `org.springframework`/`com.nimbusds` (self-maintaining), plus an explicit
+   list for tests asserting changed production signatures.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Recurring patterns / gotchas (apply these everywhere)
+
+- **HttpServletRequest is poison on reactive threads.** ~35 main-source files still reference
+  `HttpServletRequest` (see §6 list). For each in the request path, replace with:
+  - path/URI → `@Context jakarta.ws.rs.core.UriInfo` (`uriInfo.getRequestUri().getPath()`), or in a
+    non-JAX-RS bean inject `io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.CurrentVertxRequest`
+    (`currentVertxRequest.getCurrent().request().path()`), guarded in try/catch returning null/"".
+  - headers → `@Context jakarta.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders` (`getHeaderString(name)`).
+  - remote addr / method → `@Context io.vertx.core.http.HttpServerRequest`.
+  - request attributes (`get/setAttribute`) → Vert.x `RoutingContext.get/put` via `CurrentVertxRequest`.
+  - In services that already have a guarded accessor, reuse `AuditService.getCurrentRequest()`.
+- **Spring `save()` → Panache:** if the entity uses `@GeneratedValue` (new on insert) → `persist()`.
+  If the entity has a **manually-assigned `@Id`** (caller sets the id, "upsert" semantics) →
+  `getEntityManager().merge()` (NOT `persist()`), and consider concurrency.
+- **Config gating:** runtime selection that must REMOVE a bean (so its deps don't get wired) →
+  build-time `@IfBuildProperty`/`@UnlessBuildProperty`. `@LookupIfProperty` only disables *lookup*,
+  the bean and its injection points stay in the build.
+- **`quarkus.*` build-time props** (e.g. `quarkus.oidc.enabled`, `quarkus.hibernate-orm.*`,
+  `quarkus.arc.*`) can't be overridden by env at runtime — they require a rebuild.
+- **settings.yml binding is suspect** (see maxDPI). Audit `ApplicationProperties` for primitive
+  fields that need non-zero/template defaults, and verify the settings.yml → ApplicationProperties
+  binding path actually works in Quarkus (it was Spring `@ConfigurationProperties` + a custom YAML
+  property source — see the `YamlPropertySourceFactory` / `ConfigInitializer` TODOs).
+- **Augment gate:** `compileJava` passing ≠ working. `./gradlew :stirling-pdf:quarkusBuild` surfaces
+  CDI wiring errors; only *running* surfaces the `UT000048` / config / race bugs. Always run.
+- **Jackson 2 vs 3 coexist:** ~100 files use `tools.jackson` (Jackson 3, from Spring Boot 4); REST
+  (de)serialization uses Quarkus' Jackson 2. Don't "fix" `tools.jackson` imports — there's a producer.
+
+---
+
+## 6. REMAINING WORK (prioritized)
+
+### A. Make the e2e Docker build first-class
+- [x] **DONE (Session 2):** `docker/quarkus/Dockerfile` (+ `README.md`, `build-and-run.sh`) committed,
+      uses the runner-jar, copies fonts; `.dockerignore` re-includes `app/core/build/*-runner.jar`.
+- [ ] Rewrite/replace `docker/embedded/Dockerfile`, `Dockerfile.fat`, `Dockerfile.ultra-lite` for
+      Quarkus: drop the Spring-Boot `-Djarmode=tools extract --layers` + `spring-boot-loader` layer
+      copies; either copy the uber `-runner.jar` to `/app/app.jar` or use the Quarkus fast-jar
+      (`quarkus-app/`) layout. The stage-1 `gradle clean build -PbuildWithFrontend=true` still builds
+      the frontend (fine).
+- [ ] Update `scripts/init.sh` / `init-without-ocr.sh` — they have Spring-loader fallbacks and AOT
+      machinery; the primary `java -jar /app.jar` path works for the uber-jar, but verify the AOT
+      cache + `restart-helper.jar` paths.
+- [ ] Then `testing/test.sh` (the official cucumber driver) should work end-to-end.
+
+### B. Real per-endpoint bugs surfaced by cucumber (login-off suite)
+Last measured failure buckets (before the transferTo/maxDPI fixes — re-run to refresh):
+- [ ] **`PdfCorruptedException` (~48)** on `convert/pdf/{word,vector,presentation,text,pdfa,...}`,
+      `convert/{html,cbz}/pdf`. Investigate `CustomPDFDocumentFactory` (PDF loading) — is it
+      misreporting valid PDFs as corrupted, or do these convert paths need LibreOffice/handling that
+      errors first and gets wrapped? Check one: `python -m behave features/convert_new.feature:NN --format plain`
+      then read `docker logs sp-e2e` for the real cause.
+- [ ] **`ClassCastException: String cannot be cast to ...` (~6)** — form/param binding type mismatch.
+      Likely a `@RestForm`/`@QueryParam` bound to the wrong type, or a Map/JSON form field. Check
+      `form/fill`, `form_advanced.feature`.
+- [ ] **Remaining `500`s** after A/B fixes — `misc/compress-pdf`, `general/split-pdf-by-chapters`,
+      `misc/add-image`, etc. Triage each via container logs.
+- [ ] **`400`s (~5)** — multipart `@RestForm` binding gaps. The migration left several request DTOs
+      with `MultipartFile`/POJO-list fields not bound to RESTEasy `FileUpload` (AI/workflow/sign DTOs
+      explicitly flagged). See `migration-report.md` "Representative deferred code".
+- [ ] **temp-file collisions other than transferTo** — also check `GeneralUtils.createTempFile`
+      (`app/common/.../util/GeneralUtils.java:79/85`) and any `Files.createFile`/`Files.copy`/
+      `Files.move` without `REPLACE_EXISTING`. `temp<rand>genericNonCustomisableName.pdf` and
+      `/tmp/stirling-pdf/stirling-pdf-<rand>.pdf` were two such names.
+
+### C. Background scheduled-task errors (log noise, not request-breaking)
+- [ ] `FolderWatchTrigger` (reconcile) and `ScheduleTrigger` (sweep) throw
+      `jakarta.enterprise.context.ContextNotActiveException` ("neither a transaction nor a CDI
+      request context is active") because they hit Panache/`PolicyRepository` off-request. Add
+      `@Transactional` (and/or `@ActivateRequestContext`) to those scheduled methods, or wrap the EM
+      access in `QuarkusTransaction.requiringNew()`. Files:
+      `app/proprietary/.../policy/trigger/FolderWatchTrigger.java`,
+      `.../policy/trigger/ScheduleTrigger.java`, `.../policy/store/JpaPolicyStore.java`.
+
+### D. The remaining ~35 `HttpServletRequest` files (apply §5 pattern as they surface)
+Not all are in the hot path; fix the ones that throw `UT000048` when their endpoints are exercised.
+Get the list any time with:
+```bash
+grep -rln "HttpServletRequest" app/core/src/main app/proprietary/src/main app/common/src/main --include=*.java
+```
+Known-fixed already: GlobalExceptionHandler, ControllerAuditAspect, AuditAspect, AutoJobAspect,
+JobExecutorService, AuthController, UserController, ConfigController. Everything else is unverified.
+High-risk: security filters (`UserAuthenticationFilter`, rate-limit filters, `JwtAuthenticationFilter`),
+anything reading headers/cookies/remote-addr per request.
+
+### E. Auth / JWT / login — DONE (Session 2)
+The whole Quarkus auth-identity layer is now in place (`app/proprietary/.../security/identity/`):
+- [x] **JWT Bearer** → `JwtBearerAuthenticationMechanism` + `JwtTokenIdentityProvider` (validate via
+      `JwtService`, map `role` claim). Run with `V2=true`.
+- [x] **X-API-KEY** → `ApiKeyAuthenticationMechanism` + `ApiKeyAuthenticationRequest` +
+      `ApiKeyIdentityProvider` (resolve via `userService.getUserByApiKey`). Lets `X-API-KEY` requests
+      authenticate (e.g. `/me`), and lets the suite run `SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN=true`.
+- [x] **User-as-principal** → `UserSecurityIdentityAugmentor` re-loads the `User` and sets it as the
+      `SecurityIdentity` principal; `User implements Principal`. This satisfies the ~7
+      `principal instanceof User` sites (folders, file storage, sessions, audit, UserController) — the
+      augmentor every `// TODO: Migration required` in security/storage asked for.
+- [x] **Config binding** → `ApplicationPropertiesConfigOverlay` overlays env/config onto
+      `ApplicationProperties` at startup (the Spring `@ConfigurationProperties` bind was never
+      migrated, so `SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN` / `SECURITY_CUSTOMGLOBALAPIKEY` / `STORAGE_ENABLED` were
+      ignored — root cause of the maxDPI/loginAttemptCount class too). **Currently a focused subset
+      (auth/storage/SSO toggles); a complete generic bind (all ~445 fields + settings.yml) is still
+      TODO.**
+- Validated on a login-ON probe (`SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN=true V2=true STORAGE_ENABLED=true
+  SECURITY_CUSTOMGLOBALAPIKEY=123456789`): open PDF endpoints (anon), JWT login+/me, X-API-KEY /me,
+  folder list/create all work. The 183 open endpoints stay open (no global `quarkus.http.auth.*`
+  policy), so login-ON does not regress them.
+
+### F. SAML / SSO — DONE (Session 2), both flows work end-to-end
+
+**Both `validate-oauth-test.sh` and `validate-saml-test.sh` pass, and both full login flows were
+verified end-to-end against the Keycloak compose** (login -> IdP -> callback/ACS -> auto-created
+user -> app JWT cookie -> `/me` 200). Run with `PREMIUM_KEY=<your enterprise license key>`. Tag the Quarkus image as
+`docker.stirlingpdf.com/stirlingtools/stirling-pdf:latest` so the compose uses it (or repoint the
+`image:`); `start-saml-test.sh` generates the SP certs + fetches Keycloak's cert.
+
+- **OAuth2 / OIDC** (`security/oauth2/`): `OAuth2LoginController` (JAX-RS) serves
+  `/oauth2/authorization/{id}` -> IdP authorize redirect; `OAuth2CallbackServlet` (`@WebServlet
+  /login/oauth2/code/*`) does the code exchange + userinfo + auto-create + JWT cookie. **Why a
+  servlet for the callback:** quarkus-undertow's default servlet owns the `/login/*` prefix and
+  query-strips/intercepts the extension-less callback before RESTEasy sees it; a registered
+  `@WebServlet` takes precedence. (Same reason the SAML SP endpoints are servlets.)
+- **SAML2** (`security/saml2/`): `Saml2Service` (OpenSAML 5) initialises the library, loads SP
+  key/cert + IdP cert, builds SP metadata, builds+signs the redirect-binding AuthnRequest, and
+  validates the SAMLResponse signature (`SAMLSignatureProfileValidator` + `SignatureValidator`
+  against the IdP cert). `SamlMetadataServlet` -> `/saml2/service-provider-metadata/{id}`;
+  `SamlSpServlet` -> `/saml2/authenticate/{id}` (login init) + `/login/saml2/sso/{id}` (ACS).
+  **Gotcha:** the SP entityId must equal the SP-metadata URL (`{backendUrl}/saml2/service-provider-
+  metadata/{id}`), which is what Keycloak's SAML client is keyed on - NOT the bare
+  `SECURITY_SAML2_SP_ENTITYID` host (`SamlConfig` derives it). Keycloak's realm has
+  `saml.client.signature=false` (AuthnRequest signature optional) + `saml.server.signature=true`
+  (so the ACS validates the response against Keycloak's cert).
+- Both flows finish by issuing the app JWT as the `stirling_jwt` cookie, which
+  `JwtBearerAuthenticationMechanism` now also reads (not just the `Authorization` header) -> feeds
+  the `UserSecurityIdentityAugmentor` (principal = User).
+- Follow-ups: logout/SLO endpoints; encrypted-assertion handling; the `mcp` Keycloak compose;
+  desktop/Tauri RelayState (`TauriSamlUtils` preserved). Multi-provider (google/github) OAuth uses
+  the same pattern keyed by registrationId.
+
+### F-old. (superseded) original SAML/SSO scoping
+The `validate-*-test.sh` scripts are **endpoint-existence
+checks** (Keycloak up + Stirling serves the SSO endpoint), not full browser logins.
+
+Prereqs for any run: the compose files use `image: docker.stirlingpdf.com/.../stirling-pdf:latest`
+(the published Spring image) — **repoint to `stirling-pdf-quarkus:jwt`** (or wire
+`docker/quarkus/Dockerfile`). The SAML compose mounts `saml-private-key.key`/`saml-public-cert.crt`/
+`keycloak-saml-cert.pem` which **do not exist in the repo** — generate them (the SP signing
+key/cert; `start-saml-test.sh` may do this). SAML/OAuth need the **Enterprise license** env.
+
+**OAuth2 / OIDC** (more tractable — Quarkus has `quarkus-oidc`):
+- [ ] Extend `ApplicationPropertiesConfigOverlay` for `security.oauth2.*` (client issuer/clientId/
+      clientSecret/scopes/useAsUsername) — currently only the `enabled` toggle is bound.
+- [ ] Serve `GET /oauth2/authorization/{registrationId}` → 302 to the IdP authorize URL (login
+      initiation; the OAuth `validate` script checks this responds). Build from issuer + clientId +
+      redirect-uri `/login/oauth2/code/{registrationId}`.
+- [ ] Serve the callback `GET /login/oauth2/code/{registrationId}` → exchange code (REST Client to
+      the token endpoint), fetch userinfo, auto-create/login the user (reuse `CustomOAuth2UserService`
+      logic), issue the app JWT via `JwtService`. `quarkus.oidc.enabled` is **build-time** and aborts
+      startup with no `auth-server-url`, so either hand-roll the flow (simplest, no build-time gate)
+      or enable oidc with a runtime-disabled default tenant.
+
+**SAML2** (larger — no Quarkus SAML extension; OpenSAML 5 from scratch):
+- [ ] `Saml2Configuration` already loads the SP/IdP certs and computes entityId/ACS/SLO URLs and
+      customizes the AuthnRequest (all preserved). Build on it:
+  - [ ] `GET /saml2/service-provider-metadata/{registrationId}` → SP `EntityDescriptor` XML
+        (ACS=`/login/saml2/sso/{id}`, SP signing cert) marshalled via OpenSAML 5. (The SAML `validate`
+        script checks this.)
+  - [ ] login initiation → build+sign an `AuthnRequest` (use `customizeAuthnRequest`) and
+        redirect/POST to `samlConf.getIdpSingleLoginUrl()`.
+  - [ ] `POST /login/saml2/sso/{registrationId}` (ACS) → validate the SAML response/assertion against
+        the IdP cert, extract the NameID/attributes, auto-create/login the user, issue the app JWT.
+  - Host these as Jakarta `@WebServlet` (quarkus-undertow) or JAX-RS resources; gate on
+        `security.saml2.enabled`.
+- [ ] Both flows then feed the existing `UserSecurityIdentityAugmentor` (principal=User) once they
+      establish the session/JWT.
+
+### G. `saas` flavor full augmentation (optional, non-default)
+- [ ] `STIRLING_FLAVOR=saas ./gradlew :stirling-pdf:quarkusBuild` → ~28 Arc deployment problems
+      (Supabase second datasource via `quarkus.datasource."supabase".*`, `SecurityFilterChain`/
+      `JwtDecoder` → `quarkus.http.auth.*`+OIDC, credit `HandlerInterceptor`/`@RestControllerAdvice`
+      → JAX-RS `@Provider`/`ExceptionMapper`, `@ConfigurationProperties` → `@ConfigMapping`,
+      RestTemplate → REST Client). ~90 `// TODO: Migration required` across 34 saas files.
+
+### H. Test suite (unit/integration) re-enablement
+- [ ] ~180 test files are excluded from compilation (content filter on `org.springframework`/
+      `com.nimbusds` imports + an explicit list in `build.gradle`). Port them to `@QuarkusTest`
+      incrementally; as a file's Spring imports go away it auto-re-enters the build.
+
+### I. Loose ends
+- [ ] `/q/openapi` returns 500 (`UT000048`) — known quarkus-undertow + smallrye-openapi interaction;
+      swagger-ui works, live API works. Affects API-doc tooling only.
+- [ ] Jackson 2/3 convergence (drop `tools.jackson`).
+- [ ] ~437 `// TODO: Migration required` markers across the codebase document every deferred decision;
+      `grep -rn "TODO: Migration required" app/*/src/main` to enumerate.
+
+---
+
+## 7. Quick reference — env vars used in e2e
+
+| Var | Value | Why |
+|-----|-------|-----|
+| `SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN` | `false` | run without auth (most API tests); set `true` for the JWT suite |
+| `METRICS_ENABLED` | `true` | enables `/api/v1/info/*` (info.feature) |
+| `SYSTEM_DEFAULTLOCALE` | `en-US` | matches default-language change |
+| `SYSTEM_MAXFILESIZE` | `100` | upload limit for tests |
+| `QUARKUS_HTTP_PORT` | `8080` | cucumber steps hardcode 8080 |
+| `QUARKUS_DATASOURCE_JDBC_URL` | `jdbc:h2:mem:...` | use a fresh in-mem DB for clean runs (avoids stale H2 file lock) |
+
+Default datasource (in `application.properties`) is **H2 file** at
+`./configs/stirling-pdf-DB-2.3.232` — fine in a container; for repeated host runs override to
+`jdbc:h2:mem:...` to dodge the file lock (`Database may be already in use`).
+
+---
+
+## 8. Useful diagnostic one-liners
+
+```bash
+# container alive + real error (strip ANSI, drop known background noise)
+docker logs sp-e2e 2>&1 | sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' \
+  | grep -iE "ERROR|Caused by|Exception" \
+  | grep -viE "Log4j|LogManager|ForkJoinPool|FolderWatch|ScheduleTrigger|policy-" | tail -30
+
+# categorize cucumber failures
+cd testing/cucumber && TEST_CONTAINER_NAME=sp-e2e python -m behave --no-capture --format plain --no-skipped > /tmp/behave.txt 2>&1
+grep -oE "Expected status code [0-9]+ but got [0-9]+" /tmp/behave.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
+grep -oE "features/[a-z_]+\.feature" /tmp/behave.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn   # rough; use a junit reporter for precise
+
+# what still touches the servlet request
+grep -rln "HttpServletRequest" app/*/src/main --include=*.java
+
+# enumerate deferred work
+grep -rn "TODO: Migration required" app/*/src/main --include=*.java | wc -l
+```
+
+---
+
+## 9. Measured cucumber results — newest first
+
+**Run 5 — LOGIN ON (`SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN=true V2=true STORAGE_ENABLED=true
+SECURITY_CUSTOMGLOBALAPIKEY=123456789`):**
+```
+18 features passed, 7 failed, 0 skipped
+304 scenarios passed, 34 failed, 0 skipped     <-- folders + user-scoped features now pass
+```
+X-API-KEY mechanism + User-principal augmentor + config overlay made login-ON work without
+regressing the open endpoints (0 folder failures). Trajectory: **183 → 223 → 272 → 291 → 304**.
+
+**Run 4 — login off + lockout fix:** `291 passed, 47 failed, 0 skipped`.
+
+**Run 3 — login off + `V2=true` + JWT Bearer mechanism (Session 2):**
+```
+17 features passed, 8 failed, 0 skipped
+272 scenarios passed, 66 failed, 0 skipped     <-- 0 skipped: all JWT/admin scenarios now run
+```
+The JWT mechanism unskipped all 80 and added +49 passing over run 2 with no regressions. Remaining
+66 failures, biggest buckets:
+- **~38 = login-lockout cascade (FIXED, pending re-measure).** `loginAttemptCount` defaulted to 0
+  (template = 5) → admin locked after one failed-login test → every later admin scenario blocked
+  ("Admin login failed" 21×, "Folder list returned" 17×). Fixed the primitive default (same as
+  maxDPI). **Re-run to confirm; expect ~300+.**
+- 10×(200→403) feature-gated/disabled (mostly not bugs).
+- 5×(200→401) + 2×(401→403) — auth scenarios asserting specific codes; triage individually.
+- 3×(200→500) — real per-endpoint bugs (e.g. `user/get-api-key`). Triage via container logs.
+
+**Run 2 — login off, Session 2 fixes, no JWT mechanism:**
+```
+16 features passed, 5 failed, 4 skipped
+223 scenarios passed, 35 failed, 80 skipped
+```
+
+**Run 1 — original baseline (login off):**
+```
+183 scenarios passed, 75 failed, 80 skipped
+```
+
+Trajectory this session: **183 → 223 (boot/login/test fixes) → 272 (JWT mechanism), 0 skipped.**
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ For full installation options (including desktop and Kubernetes), see our [Docum

 We welcome contributions! Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for guidelines.

-This project uses [Task](https://taskfile.dev/) as a unified command runner for all build, dev, and test commands. Run `task install` to get started, or see the [Developer Guide](DeveloperGuide.md) for full details.
+This project uses [Task](https://taskfile.dev/) as a unified command runner for all build, dev, and test commands. Run `task dev` to get started running the editor, run `task` to see the most common commands, or see the [Developer Guide](DeveloperGuide.md) for full details.

 For adding translations, see the [Translation Guide](devGuide/HowToAddNewLanguage.md).

@@ -25,8 +25,28 @@ includes:
  e2e:
    taskfile: .taskfiles/e2e.yml
    dir: .
+  pre-commit:
+    taskfile: .taskfiles/pre-commit.yml
+    dir: .

 tasks:
+  # ============================================================
+  # Help (shown when you run `task` with no arguments)
+  # ============================================================
+
+  default:
+    desc: "List the most common commands"
+    silent: true
+    cmds:
+      - |
+        echo "Common commands (run 'task --list' to see all):"
+        echo ""
+        echo "  task dev            Start backend & frontend on free ports"
+        echo "  task backend:dev    Start backend on default port"
+        echo "  task frontend:dev   Start frontend on default port"
+        echo "  task desktop:dev    Start desktop app"
+        echo "  task check          Quality gate (lint, typecheck, test, etc.)"
+
  # ============================================================
  # Setup & Prerequisites
  # ============================================================
@@ -87,6 +107,7 @@ tasks:
        vars:
          PORT: '{{.BACKEND_PORT}}'
          AIENGINE_URL: 'http://localhost:{{.ENGINE_PORT}}'
+          AIENGINE_ENABLED: "true"
      - task: 'frontend:dev:{{.FRONTEND}}'
        vars:
          PORT: '{{.FRONTEND_PORT}}'
@@ -171,4 +192,6 @@ tasks:
    desc: "Clean all build artifacts"
    cmds:
      - task: backend:clean
+      - task: frontend:clean
      - task: engine:clean
+      - task: pre-commit:clean
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 {
  "allowedLicenses": [
+    {
+      "moduleName": "org.jboss:jboss-transaction-spi",
+      "moduleLicense": "Public Domain"
+    },
    {
      "moduleName": ".*",
      "moduleLicense": "BSD License"
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-// Configure bootRun to disable it or point to a main class
-bootRun {
-    enabled = false
-}
+// REMOVED: bootRun{enabled=false} - Spring Boot plugin task. :common is a Quarkus library module.
 spotless {
    java {
        target 'src/**/java/**/*.java'
@@ -30,8 +27,29 @@ spotless {
 }
 dependencies {
    api 'com.google.guava:guava:33.6.0-jre'
-    api 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-webmvc'
-    api 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-aspectj'
+
+    // spring-boot-starter-webmvc -> Quarkus REST stack (api-scoped so downstream modules inherit it).
+    api 'io.quarkus:quarkus-rest'
+    api 'io.quarkus:quarkus-rest-jackson'
+    // Servlet bridge: large amounts of controller/filter code use jakarta.servlet (HttpServletRequest,
+    // Filter, etc.). quarkus-undertow provides a servlet container on Quarkus so that API resolves and
+    // runs. TODO: Migration required - longer term, port servlet usage to JAX-RS (ContainerRequestContext)
+    //       and drop quarkus-undertow.
+    api 'io.quarkus:quarkus-undertow'
+    // Bean Validation (was transitively in spring-boot-starter-webmvc).
+    api 'io.quarkus:quarkus-hibernate-validator'
+    // @Scheduled support (was spring-context scheduling). quarkus-scheduler manages its own
+    // executor; the former SchedulingConfig TaskScheduler bean is no longer needed.
+    api 'io.quarkus:quarkus-scheduler'
+    // BCrypt implementation backing the Spring Security PasswordEncoder compatibility shim
+    // (replaces spring-security-crypto's BCryptPasswordEncoder). Standalone, no framework.
+    api 'at.favre.lib:bcrypt:0.10.2'
+    // Swagger/OpenAPI annotations (io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.*) used by common's API marker
+    // interfaces; was transitive via springdoc. Quarkus' SmallRye OpenAPI also understands these.
+    api 'io.swagger.core.v3:swagger-core-jakarta:2.2.46'
+    // REMOVED: spring-boot-starter-aspectj. Quarkus has no AspectJ weaving; quarkus-arc provides
+    // CDI interceptors (@AroundInvoke / interceptor bindings) instead.
+    // TODO: Migration required - any @Aspect/@Around advice must be rewritten as CDI interceptors.
    api 'com.googlecode.owasp-java-html-sanitizer:owasp-java-html-sanitizer:20260313.1'
    api 'com.fathzer:javaluator:3.0.6'
    api 'com.posthog.java:posthog:1.2.0'
@@ -45,7 +63,8 @@ dependencies {
    api 'com.github.junrar:junrar:7.5.10' // RAR archive support for CBR files
    api 'jakarta.servlet:jakarta.servlet-api:6.1.0'
    api 'org.snakeyaml:snakeyaml-engine:3.0.1'
-    api "org.springdoc:springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui:3.0.3"
+    // springdoc-openapi-starter-webmvc-ui -> SmallRye OpenAPI (schema at /q/openapi, UI at /q/swagger-ui)
+    api 'io.quarkus:quarkus-smallrye-openapi'
    // Simple Java Mail for EML/MSG parsing (replaces direct Angus Mail usage)
    api 'org.simplejavamail:simple-java-mail:8.12.6'
    api 'org.simplejavamail:outlook-module:8.12.6' // MSG file support
@@ -78,6 +97,14 @@ dependencies {
        runtimeOnly "com.stirling:jpdfium-natives-${platform}:1.0.2"
    }

+    // Jackson 3 (tools.jackson) - retained because ~100 files migrated to the Jackson 3 namespace
+    // under Spring Boot 4. Quarkus integrates Jackson 2 for REST bodies; Jackson 3 coexists here as a
+    // plain library so those files compile and can still build/parse JSON directly.
+    // api-scoped so downstream modules (core, proprietary, saas) that import tools.jackson inherit it.
+    // TODO: Migration required - converge the codebase on a single Jackson major version.
+    api 'tools.jackson.core:jackson-databind:3.0.0'
+    api 'tools.jackson.core:jackson-core:3.0.0'
+
    // Bucket4j (local in-process token bucket for RateLimitStore default impl)
    implementation 'com.bucket4j:bucket4j_jdk17-core:8.19.0'

@@ -6,15 +6,16 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;

-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.inject.Inject;
+import jakarta.inject.Named;

 import lombok.Getter;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

 import stirling.software.common.model.ApplicationProperties;

-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
@Slf4j
 public class EndpointConfiguration {

@@ -52,9 +53,10 @@ public class EndpointConfiguration {
    private Map<String, Set<String>> endpointAlternatives = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
    private final boolean runningProOrHigher;

+    @Inject
    public EndpointConfiguration(
            ApplicationProperties applicationProperties,
-            @Qualifier("runningProOrHigher") boolean runningProOrHigher) {
+            @Named("runningProOrHigher") boolean runningProOrHigher) {
        this.applicationProperties = applicationProperties;
        this.runningProOrHigher = runningProOrHigher;
        init();
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;

 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ import technology.tabula.extractors.SpreadsheetExtractionAlgorithm;
 *   <li>Rotated tables (90°/270° pages) may produce incorrect bounds.
 * </ul>
 */
-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
@Slf4j
 public class TabulaTableParser implements TableParser {

@@ -2,21 +2,27 @@ package stirling.software.common.annotations;

 import java.lang.annotation.*;

-import org.springframework.core.annotation.AliasFor;
-import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.parameters.RequestBody;

+import jakarta.enterprise.util.Nonbinding;
+import jakarta.interceptor.InterceptorBinding;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
+
 /**
 * Shortcut for a POST endpoint that is executed through the Stirling "auto‑job" framework.
 *
+ * <p>MIGRATION (Spring -> Quarkus): this was a Spring composed meta-annotation that stamped
+ * {@code @RequestMapping(method=POST)} onto the target via {@code @AliasFor}. JAX-RS does not
+ * honour {@code @Path}/{@code @POST}/{@code @Consumes} through meta-annotations, so this annotation
+ * no longer provides routing. It is now a CDI {@link InterceptorBinding} handled by {@code
+ * AutoJobInterceptor}. <b>Controllers using {@code @AutoJobPostMapping} must additionally declare
+ * their own JAX-RS {@code @POST} + {@code @Path(value)} + {@code @Consumes(consumes)}.</b> The
+ * {@link #value()}/{@link #consumes()} members are retained so a scanner/controller can read the
+ * intended routing.
+ *
 * <p>Behaviour notes:
 *
 * <ul>
- *   <li>The endpoint is registered with {@code POST} and, by default, consumes {@code
- *       multipart/form-data} unless you override {@link #consumes()}.
 *   <li>When the client supplies {@code ?async=true} the call is handed to {@link
 *       stirling.software.common.service.JobExecutorService JobExecutorService} where it may be
 *       queued, retried, tracked and subject to time‑outs. For synchronous (default) invocations
@@ -26,22 +32,26 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.parameters.RequestBody;
 *       GET /api/v1/general/job/{id}</code>.
 * </ul>
 *
- * <p>Unless stated otherwise an attribute only affects <em>async</em> execution.
+ * <p>Unless stated otherwise an attribute only affects <em>async</em> execution. All members are
+ * {@code @Nonbinding} so the single {@code AutoJobInterceptor} matches every annotated method; the
+ * interceptor reads the actual values reflectively from the target method.
 */
-@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
+@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
-@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
+@InterceptorBinding
@RequestBody(required = true)
 public @interface AutoJobPostMapping {

-    /** Alias for {@link RequestMapping#value} – the path mapping of the endpoint. */
-    @AliasFor(annotation = RequestMapping.class, attribute = "value")
+    /**
+     * The path mapping of the endpoint (controllers must mirror this on a JAX-RS {@code @Path}).
+     */
+    @Nonbinding
    String[] value() default {};

    /** MIME types this endpoint accepts. Defaults to {@code multipart/form-data}. */
-    @AliasFor(annotation = RequestMapping.class, attribute = "consumes")
-    String[] consumes() default {MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA_VALUE};
+    @Nonbinding
+    String[] consumes() default {MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA};

    /**
     * Maximum execution time in milliseconds before the job is aborted. A negative value means "use
@@ -49,6 +59,7 @@ public @interface AutoJobPostMapping {
     *
     * <p>Only honoured when {@code async=true}.
     */
+    @Nonbinding
    long timeout() default -1;

    /**
@@ -57,6 +68,7 @@ public @interface AutoJobPostMapping {
     *
     * <p>Only honoured when {@code async=true}.
     */
+    @Nonbinding
    int retryCount() default 1;

    /**
@@ -64,6 +76,7 @@ public @interface AutoJobPostMapping {
     *
     * <p>Only honoured when {@code async=true}.
     */
+    @Nonbinding
    boolean trackProgress() default true;

    /**
@@ -72,6 +85,7 @@ public @interface AutoJobPostMapping {
     *
     * <p>Only honoured when {@code async=true}.
     */
+    @Nonbinding
    boolean queueable() default false;

    /**
@@ -82,5 +96,6 @@ public @interface AutoJobPostMapping {
     * AutoJobPostMappingWeightTest} fails the build if any endpoint leaves it unset. Runtime
     * readers clamp the value into {@code [1, 100]}.
     */
+    @Nonbinding
    int resourceWeight() default Integer.MIN_VALUE;
 }
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/account")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/account").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Account Security",
        description =
@@ -5,19 +5,20 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
 * Combined annotation for Admin Settings API controllers.
- * Includes @RestController, @RequestMapping("/api/v1/admin/settings"), and OpenAPI @Tag.
+ *
+ * <p>MIGRATION (Spring -> JAX-RS): JAX-RS/RESTEasy does NOT process {@code @Path} via custom
+ * meta-annotations (Spring honoured composed {@code @RestController}/{@code @RequestMapping}
+ * through {@code @AliasFor}; JAX-RS has no equivalent). This annotation therefore now carries only
+ * the OpenAPI {@code @Tag}. Each controller annotated with {@code @AdminApi} MUST additionally
+ * declare its own {@code @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/admin/settings")} (the path the removed
+ * {@code @RequestMapping} used to supply).
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/admin/settings")
@Tag(
        name = "Admin Settings",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/admin/server-certificate")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/admin/server-certificate").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Admin - Server Certificate",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/analysis")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/analysis").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Analysis",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/config")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/config").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Config",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/convert")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/convert").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Convert",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/database")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/database").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Database",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/admin/database")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/admin/database").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Database Management",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/filter")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/filter").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Filter",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/general")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/general").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "General",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/info")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/info").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Info",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/invite")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/invite").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Invite",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/misc")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/misc").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Misc",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/pipeline")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/pipeline").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Pipeline",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -17,8 +14,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/proprietary/ui-data")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/proprietary/ui-data").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Proprietary UI Data",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/security")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/security").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Security",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/settings")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/settings").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Settings",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/team")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/team").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "Team",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/ui-data")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/ui-data").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "UI Data",
        description =
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
 import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;

-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
-import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;

 /**
@@ -16,8 +13,9 @@ import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.tags.Tag;
 */
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
-@RestController
-@RequestMapping("/api/v1/user")
+// MIGRATION (Spring->JAX-RS): controllers using this annotation must declare
+// @jakarta.ws.rs.Path("/api/v1/user").
+// JAX-RS does not honour @Path via meta-annotations, so the path is not inherited from here.
@Tag(
        name = "User",
        description =
@@ -7,46 +7,101 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 import java.util.function.Supplier;

-import org.aspectj.lang.ProceedingJoinPoint;
-import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.*;
 import org.slf4j.MDC;
-import org.springframework.core.annotation.Order;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
-import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;

-import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.CurrentVertxRequest;
+
+import jakarta.annotation.Priority;
+import jakarta.inject.Inject;
+import jakarta.interceptor.AroundInvoke;
+import jakarta.interceptor.Interceptor;
+import jakarta.interceptor.InvocationContext;

-import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

 import stirling.software.common.annotations.AutoJobPostMapping;
+import stirling.software.common.model.MultipartFile;
 import stirling.software.common.model.api.PDFFile;
 import stirling.software.common.service.FileStorage;
 import stirling.software.common.service.JobExecutorService;

-@Aspect
-@Component
-@RequiredArgsConstructor
+/**
+ * MIGRATION (Spring AOP -> CDI interceptor): was an {@code @Aspect} with {@code @Around} advice on
+ * {@code @AutoJobPostMapping}. Reworked into a CDI {@link Interceptor} bound by the
+ * {@code @AutoJobPostMapping} {@code @InterceptorBinding}; {@code @Around}/{@code
+ * ProceedingJoinPoint} became {@code @AroundInvoke}/{@link InvocationContext}.
+ * {@code @Priority(20)} now meaningfully orders this interceptor (runs after lower-priority audit
+ * interceptors populate MDC).
+ */
+@Interceptor
+@AutoJobPostMapping
+@Priority(20)
@Slf4j
-@Order(20) // Lower precedence - executes AFTER audit aspects populate MDC
 public class AutoJobAspect {

    private static final Duration RETRY_BASE_DELAY = Duration.ofMillis(100);

    private final JobExecutorService jobExecutorService;
-    private final HttpServletRequest request;
+    // Reactive-safe access to the current request. The undertow HttpServletRequest proxy throws
+    // UT000048 ("No request is currently active") on RESTEasy Reactive worker threads, so query
+    // params / method / path / attributes are read from the Vert.x request instead, degrading to
+    // null/empty when no request is active.
+    private final CurrentVertxRequest currentVertxRequest;
    private final FileStorage fileStorage;

-    @Around("@annotation(autoJobPostMapping)")
-    public Object wrapWithJobExecution(
-            ProceedingJoinPoint joinPoint, AutoJobPostMapping autoJobPostMapping) throws Exception {
-        // This aspect will run before any audit aspects due to @Order(0)
+    @Inject
+    public AutoJobAspect(
+            JobExecutorService jobExecutorService,
+            CurrentVertxRequest currentVertxRequest,
+            FileStorage fileStorage) {
+        this.jobExecutorService = jobExecutorService;
+        this.currentVertxRequest = currentVertxRequest;
+        this.fileStorage = fileStorage;
+    }
+
+    private io.vertx.core.http.HttpServerRequest vertxRequest() {
+        try {
+            var current = currentVertxRequest.getCurrent();
+            return current != null ? current.request() : null;
+        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private String requestParam(String name) {
+        io.vertx.core.http.HttpServerRequest req = vertxRequest();
+        return req != null ? req.getParam(name) : null;
+    }
+
+    private String requestMethod() {
+        io.vertx.core.http.HttpServerRequest req = vertxRequest();
+        return req != null ? req.method().name() : "";
+    }
+
+    private String requestUri() {
+        io.vertx.core.http.HttpServerRequest req = vertxRequest();
+        return req != null ? req.path() : "";
+    }
+
+    private Object requestAttribute(String name) {
+        try {
+            var current = currentVertxRequest.getCurrent();
+            return current != null ? current.get(name) : null;
+        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @AroundInvoke
+    public Object wrapWithJobExecution(InvocationContext ctx) throws Exception {
+        AutoJobPostMapping autoJobPostMapping =
+                ctx.getMethod().getAnnotation(AutoJobPostMapping.class);
        // Extract parameters from the request and annotation
-        boolean async = Boolean.parseBoolean(request.getParameter("async"));
+        boolean async = Boolean.parseBoolean(requestParam("async"));
        log.debug(
                "AutoJobAspect: Processing {} {} with async={}",
-                request.getMethod(),
-                request.getRequestURI(),
+                requestMethod(),
+                requestUri(),
                async);
        long timeout = autoJobPostMapping.timeout();
        int retryCount = autoJobPostMapping.retryCount();
@@ -61,7 +116,8 @@ public class AutoJobAspect {
                trackProgress);

        // Process arguments in-place to avoid type mismatch issues
-        Object[] args = processArgsInPlace(joinPoint.getArgs(), async);
+        Object[] args = processArgsInPlace(ctx.getParameters(), async);
+        ctx.setParameters(args);

        // Extract queueable and resourceWeight parameters and validate
        boolean queueable = autoJobPostMapping.queueable();
@@ -80,7 +136,7 @@ public class AutoJobAspect {
                                    // The trackProgress flag controls whether detailed progress is
                                    // stored
                                    // for REST API queries, not WebSocket notifications
-                                    return joinPoint.proceed(args);
+                                    return ctx.proceed();
                                } catch (Throwable ex) {
                                    log.error(
                                            "AutoJobAspect caught exception during job execution: {}",
@@ -101,7 +157,7 @@ public class AutoJobAspect {
        } else {
            // Use retry logic
            return executeWithRetries(
-                    joinPoint,
+                    ctx,
                    args,
                    async,
                    timeout,
@@ -113,7 +169,7 @@ public class AutoJobAspect {
    }

    private Object executeWithRetries(
-            ProceedingJoinPoint joinPoint,
+            InvocationContext ctx,
            Object[] args,
            boolean async,
            long timeout,
@@ -158,7 +214,7 @@ public class AutoJobAspect {
                                    }

                                    // Attempt to execute the operation
-                                    return joinPoint.proceed(args);
+                                    return ctx.proceed();

                                } catch (Throwable ex) {
                                    lastException = ex;
@@ -292,7 +348,7 @@ public class AutoJobAspect {

    private String getJobIdFromContext() {
        try {
-            return (String) request.getAttribute("jobId");
+            return (String) requestAttribute("jobId");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            log.debug("Could not retrieve job ID from context: {}", e.getMessage());
            return null;
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 package stirling.software.common.cluster;

-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-
 import jakarta.annotation.PostConstruct;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
@@ -19,7 +18,7 @@ import stirling.software.common.model.ApplicationProperties.Cluster;
 * single-instance install needs no new config.
 */
@Slf4j
-@Configuration
+@ApplicationScoped
@RequiredArgsConstructor
 public class ClusterConfig {

@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ public class ClusterConfig {
                            + " JVM is coordinated. Cross-node lookups and the file proxy will fail."
                            + " Use backplane=valkey for real multi-node deployments.");
        } else {
-            // Fail fast on typos like "valky" so Spring doesn't later report a cryptic
+            // Fail fast on typos like "valky" so CDI doesn't later report a cryptic
            // "no ClusterBackplane bean" - the operator-facing error names the bad value.
            throw new IllegalStateException(
                    "cluster.enabled=true with unknown backplane '"
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 package stirling.software.common.cluster.inprocess;

-import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnExpression;
-import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnMissingBean;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import io.quarkus.arc.DefaultBean;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.inject.Produces;

 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

@@ -19,46 +19,58 @@ import stirling.software.common.model.ApplicationProperties;
 * Default cluster backplane wiring: every interface gets an {@code InProcess*} bean. Active when
 * cluster mode is off or {@code cluster.backplane=inprocess}.
 */
+// TODO: Migration required - the original @ConditionalOnExpression
+// ("!${cluster.enabled:false} || '${cluster.backplane:inprocess}'.equalsIgnoreCase('inprocess')")
+// gated activation of this whole configuration on a SpEL expression over two config properties.
+// Quarkus/CDI has no direct equivalent for conditionally registering a producer set based on a
+// SpEL boolean. The @DefaultBean producers below now always provide the in-process implementations
+// unless another bean of the same type is present. If a non-inprocess backplane is added, ensure
+// it is NOT a @DefaultBean so it wins, and consider gating with
+// @io.quarkus.arc.lookup.LookupIfProperty
+// / @io.quarkus.arc.lookup.LookupUnlessProperty or a build-time @IfBuildProperty per producer.
@Slf4j
-@Configuration
-@ConditionalOnExpression(
-        "!${cluster.enabled:false} ||"
-                + " '${cluster.backplane:inprocess}'.equalsIgnoreCase('inprocess')")
+@ApplicationScoped
 public class InProcessClusterConfiguration {

-    @Bean
-    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
+    @Produces
+    @DefaultBean
+    @ApplicationScoped
    public ClusterBackplane clusterBackplane(ApplicationProperties applicationProperties) {
        log.info("Cluster backplane: in-process (single node)");
        return new InProcessClusterBackplane(applicationProperties);
    }

-    @Bean
-    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
+    @Produces
+    @DefaultBean
+    @ApplicationScoped
    public JobStore jobStore() {
        return new InProcessJobStore();
    }

-    @Bean
-    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
+    @Produces
+    @DefaultBean
+    @ApplicationScoped
    public RateLimitStore rateLimitStore() {
        return new InProcessRateLimitStore();
    }

-    @Bean
-    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
+    @Produces
+    @DefaultBean
+    @ApplicationScoped
    public DistributedLock distributedLock() {
        return new InProcessDistributedLock();
    }

-    @Bean
-    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
+    @Produces
+    @DefaultBean
+    @ApplicationScoped
    public KeyValueCache keyValueCache() {
        return new InProcessKeyValueCache();
    }

-    @Bean
-    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
+    @Produces
+    @DefaultBean
+    @ApplicationScoped
    public InstanceRegistry instanceRegistry() {
        return new InProcessInstanceRegistry();
    }
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 package stirling.software.common.cluster.inprocess;

-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
-import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnMissingBean;
-import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnProperty;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.inject.ConfigProperty;
+
+import io.quarkus.arc.DefaultBean;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.inject.Produces;

 import stirling.software.common.cluster.FileStore;

@@ -13,17 +14,23 @@ import stirling.software.common.cluster.FileStore;
 * cluster.artifactStore=local} (the default; {@code matchIfMissing=true}). The S3 artifact-store
 * supplies its own bean when {@code cluster.artifactStore=s3}.
 */
-@Configuration
-@ConditionalOnProperty(
-        prefix = "cluster",
-        name = "artifactStore",
-        havingValue = "local",
-        matchIfMissing = true)
+// TODO: Migration required - the original class was guarded by Spring's
+// @ConditionalOnProperty(prefix="cluster", name="artifactStore", havingValue="local",
+// matchIfMissing=true). Quarkus has no runtime equivalent: @io.quarkus.arc.profile.IfBuildProperty
+// is build-time only and does not support matchIfMissing semantics. The producer below is now
+// unconditional. The "local is the default; S3 supplies its own bean" behavior is preserved via
+// @DefaultBean (the S3 artifact-store bean, if present, wins over this default). If a true
+// runtime toggle on cluster.artifactStore is needed, gate the producer body on the config value
+// and return/short-circuit accordingly.
+@ApplicationScoped
 public class LocalDiskFileStoreConfiguration {

-    @Bean
-    @ConditionalOnMissingBean
-    public FileStore fileStore(@Value("${stirling.tempDir:/tmp/stirling-files}") String tempDir) {
+    @Produces
+    @DefaultBean
+    @ApplicationScoped
+    public FileStore fileStore(
+            @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.tempDir", defaultValue = "/tmp/stirling-files")
+                    String tempDir) {
        return new LocalDiskFileStore(tempDir);
    }
 }
@@ -3,37 +3,29 @@ package stirling.software.common.config;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;

-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-
 import jakarta.annotation.PostConstruct;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

 import stirling.software.common.model.ApplicationProperties;
-import stirling.software.common.util.TempFileRegistry;

 /**
 * Configuration for the temporary file management system. Sets up the necessary beans and
 * configures system properties.
 */
@Slf4j
-@Configuration
+@ApplicationScoped
@RequiredArgsConstructor
 public class TempFileConfiguration {

    private final ApplicationProperties applicationProperties;

-    /**
-     * Create the TempFileRegistry bean.
-     *
-     * @return A new TempFileRegistry instance
-     */
-    @Bean
-    public TempFileRegistry tempFileRegistry() {
-        return new TempFileRegistry();
-    }
+    // MIGRATION: the @Produces TempFileRegistry producer was removed. TempFileRegistry is already
+    // an
+    // @ApplicationScoped CDI bean with a no-arg constructor, so the producer was a redundant second
+    // @Default bean of the same type and made every injection point ambiguous.

    @PostConstruct
    public void initTempFileConfig() {
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.Set;

-import org.springframework.beans.factory.DisposableBean;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
+import jakarta.annotation.PreDestroy;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ import stirling.software.common.util.GeneralUtils;
 import stirling.software.common.util.TempFileRegistry;

 /**
- * Handles cleanup of temporary files on application shutdown. Implements Spring's DisposableBean
- * interface to ensure cleanup happens during normal application shutdown.
+ * Handles cleanup of temporary files on application shutdown. Uses a CDI {@code @PreDestroy} method
+ * (migrated from Spring's {@code DisposableBean}) to ensure cleanup happens during normal shutdown.
 */
@Slf4j
-@Component
-public class TempFileShutdownHook implements DisposableBean {
+@ApplicationScoped
+public class TempFileShutdownHook {

    private final TempFileRegistry registry;

@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ public class TempFileShutdownHook implements DisposableBean {
        Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread(this::cleanupTempFiles));
    }

-    /** Spring's DisposableBean interface method. Called during normal application shutdown. */
-    @Override
+    /** CDI pre-destroy callback (was DisposableBean#destroy). Called during normal shutdown. */
+    @PreDestroy
    public void destroy() {
        log.info("Application shutting down, cleaning up temporary files");
        cleanupTempFiles();
@@ -9,40 +9,69 @@ import java.util.Properties;
 import java.util.function.Predicate;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;

-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Lazy;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Profile;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Scope;
-import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
-import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
-import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
-import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.Config;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.inject.ConfigProperty;
+
+import io.quarkus.arc.profile.IfBuildProfile;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.Dependent;
+import jakarta.enterprise.inject.Produces;
+import jakarta.inject.Inject;
+import jakarta.inject.Named;

 import lombok.Getter;
-import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

 import stirling.software.common.model.ApplicationProperties;

-@Lazy
+/**
+ * Central CDI producer hub (migrated from a Spring {@code @Configuration} class).
+ *
+ * <p>MIGRATION NOTES (Spring -> Quarkus CDI):
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *   <li>{@code @Bean} -> {@code @Produces}; {@code @Bean(name="x")} ->
+ *       {@code @Produces @Named("x")}.
+ *   <li>{@code @Value} -> {@code @ConfigProperty}; Spring {@code Environment} -> MicroProfile
+ *       {@code Config}.
+ *   <li>{@code @Profile("default")} flavor-default beans -> {@code @DefaultBean}: the :proprietary
+ *       / :saas modules provide the "real" producer and automatically win when present, exactly
+ *       like the old profile override (this is the Quarkus idiom for "default unless overridden").
+ *   <li>{@code @Scope("request")} on {@code boolean} producers -> {@code @Dependent}. CDI normal
+ *       scopes (e.g. {@code @RequestScoped}) require a client proxy, which is impossible for
+ *       primitives/finals, so Spring's request-scoped primitive beans cannot be reproduced
+ *       directly. {@code @Dependent} recomputes the value at each injection point, which is the
+ *       closest behaviour. TODO: Migration required - if true per-HTTP-request semantics are
+ *       needed, wrap the value in a {@code @RequestScoped} holder object instead of producing a
+ *       bare boolean.
+ *   <li>{@code @Lazy} dropped - CDI beans are initialised lazily by default.
+ * </ul>
+ */
@Slf4j
-@Configuration
-@RequiredArgsConstructor
+@ApplicationScoped
 public class AppConfig {

-    private final Environment env;
+    private final Config config;

    private final ApplicationProperties applicationProperties;

    @Getter
-    @Value("${server.servlet.context-path:/}")
-    private String contextPath;
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "server.servlet.context-path", defaultValue = "/")
+    String contextPath;

    @Getter
-    @Value("${server.port:8080}")
-    private String serverPort;
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "quarkus.http.port", defaultValue = "8080")
+    String serverPort;
+
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "v2")
+    boolean v2Enabled;
+
+    @Inject
+    public AppConfig(Config config, ApplicationProperties applicationProperties) {
+        this.config = config;
+        this.applicationProperties = applicationProperties;
+    }

    /**
     * Get the backend URL from system configuration. Falls back to http://localhost if not
@@ -55,76 +84,111 @@ public class AppConfig {
        return (backendUrl != null && !backendUrl.isBlank()) ? backendUrl : "http://localhost";
    }

-    @Value("${v2}")
-    public boolean v2Enabled;
-
-    @Bean
+    @Produces
+    @Named("v2Enabled")
    public boolean v2Enabled() {
        return v2Enabled;
    }

-    @Bean(name = "loginEnabled")
+    // MIGRATION: many beans inject tools.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper (Jackson 3, inherited from
+    // Spring Boot 4). Quarkus' container only produces a com.fasterxml.jackson (Jackson 2)
+    // ObjectMapper for REST (de)serialization, so the Jackson 3 type is an unsatisfied CDI
+    // dependency. This producer supplies a single application-scoped Jackson 3 mapper built the
+    // same
+    // way the codebase builds them ad hoc (JsonMapper.builder().build()). REST bodies still go
+    // through Quarkus' Jackson 2 mapper; this is only for code that uses the Jackson 3 API
+    // directly.
+    // TODO: Migration required - converge the codebase on one Jackson line (drop Jackson 3) later.
+    @Produces
+    @ApplicationScoped
+    public tools.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper jackson3ObjectMapper() {
+        return tools.jackson.databind.json.JsonMapper.builder().build();
+    }
+
+    @Produces
+    @Named("contextPath")
+    public String contextPathBean() {
+        return contextPath;
+    }
+
+    @Produces
+    @Named("loginEnabled")
    public boolean loginEnabled() {
        return applicationProperties.getSecurity().isEnableLogin();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "appName")
+    // MIGRATION: CDI has no producer for the nested ApplicationProperties.Security.SAML2 config
+    // object, so beans that inject it directly (e.g. CustomSaml2AuthenticationSuccessHandler) were
+    // unsatisfied. Expose it from the already-injected ApplicationProperties. May be null/disabled;
+    // that is fine for injection.
+    @Produces
+    public ApplicationProperties.Security.SAML2 saml2Config() {
+        return applicationProperties.getSecurity().getSaml2();
+    }
+
+    @Produces
+    @Named("appName")
    public String appName() {
        return "Stirling PDF";
    }

-    @Bean(name = "appVersion")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("appVersion")
    public String appVersion() {
-        Resource resource = new ClassPathResource("version.properties");
+        // MIGRATION: Spring ClassPathResource -> plain classloader resource lookup.
        Properties props = new Properties();
-        try {
-            props.load(resource.getInputStream());
-            return props.getProperty("version");
+        try (var in = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("version.properties")) {
+            if (in != null) {
+                props.load(in);
+                return props.getProperty("version");
+            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            log.error("exception", e);
        }
        return "0.0.0";
    }

-    @Bean(name = "homeText")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("homeText")
    public String homeText() {
        return "null";
    }

-    @Bean(name = "languages")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("languages")
    public List<String> languages() {
        return applicationProperties.getUi().getLanguages();
    }

-    @Bean
-    public String contextPath(@Value("${server.servlet.context-path}") String contextPath) {
-        return contextPath;
-    }
-
-    @Bean(name = "navBarText")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("navBarText")
    public String navBarText() {
        String navBar = applicationProperties.getUi().getAppNameNavbar();
        return (navBar != null) ? navBar : "Stirling PDF";
    }

-    @Bean(name = "enableAlphaFunctionality")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("enableAlphaFunctionality")
    public boolean enableAlphaFunctionality() {
        return applicationProperties.getSystem().isEnableAlphaFunctionality();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "rateLimit")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("rateLimit")
    public boolean rateLimit() {
        String rateLimit = System.getProperty("rateLimit");
        if (rateLimit == null) rateLimit = System.getenv("rateLimit");
        return Boolean.parseBoolean(rateLimit);
    }

-    @Bean(name = "RunningInDocker")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("RunningInDocker")
    public boolean runningInDocker() {
        return Files.exists(Path.of("/.dockerenv"));
    }

-    @Bean(name = "configDirMounted")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("configDirMounted")
    public boolean isRunningInDockerWithConfig() {
        Path dockerEnv = Path.of("/.dockerenv");
        // default to true if not docker
@@ -143,14 +207,23 @@ public class AppConfig {
        }
    }

-    @Bean(name = "activeSecurity")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("activeSecurity")
    public boolean missingActiveSecurity() {
-        return ClassUtils.isPresent(
-                "stirling.software.proprietary.security.configuration.SecurityConfiguration",
-                this.getClass().getClassLoader());
+        // MIGRATION: Spring ClassUtils.isPresent -> manual Class.forName presence check.
+        try {
+            Class.forName(
+                    "stirling.software.proprietary.security.configuration.SecurityConfiguration",
+                    false,
+                    this.getClass().getClassLoader());
+            return true;
+        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            return false;
+        }
    }

-    @Bean(name = "directoryFilter")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("directoryFilter")
    public Predicate<Path> processOnlyFiles() {
        return path -> {
            if (Files.isDirectory(path)) {
@@ -161,113 +234,138 @@ public class AppConfig {
        };
    }

-    @Bean(name = "termsAndConditions")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("termsAndConditions")
    public String termsAndConditions() {
        return applicationProperties.getLegal().getTermsAndConditions();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "privacyPolicy")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("privacyPolicy")
    public String privacyPolicy() {
        return applicationProperties.getLegal().getPrivacyPolicy();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "cookiePolicy")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("cookiePolicy")
    public String cookiePolicy() {
        return applicationProperties.getLegal().getCookiePolicy();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "impressum")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("impressum")
    public String impressum() {
        return applicationProperties.getLegal().getImpressum();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "accessibilityStatement")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("accessibilityStatement")
    public String accessibilityStatement() {
        return applicationProperties.getLegal().getAccessibilityStatement();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "analyticsPrompt")
-    @Scope("request")
+    @Produces
+    @Dependent
+    @Named("analyticsPrompt")
    public boolean analyticsPrompt() {
        return applicationProperties.getSystem().getEnableAnalytics() == null;
    }

-    @Bean(name = "analyticsEnabled")
-    @Scope("request")
+    @Produces
+    @Dependent
+    @Named("analyticsEnabled")
    public boolean analyticsEnabled() {
        if (applicationProperties.getPremium().isEnabled()) return true;
        return applicationProperties.getSystem().isAnalyticsEnabled();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "StirlingPDFLabel")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("StirlingPDFLabel")
    public String stirlingPDFLabel() {
        return "Stirling-PDF" + " v" + appVersion();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "UUID")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("UUID")
    public String uuid() {
        return applicationProperties.getAutomaticallyGenerated().getUUID();
    }

-    @Bean
+    @Produces
    public ApplicationProperties.Security security() {
        return applicationProperties.getSecurity();
    }

-    @Bean
+    @Produces
    public ApplicationProperties.Security.OAUTH2 oAuth2() {
        return applicationProperties.getSecurity().getOauth2();
    }

-    @Bean
+    @Produces
    public ApplicationProperties.Premium premium() {
        return applicationProperties.getPremium();
    }

-    @Bean
+    @Produces
    public ApplicationProperties.System system() {
        return applicationProperties.getSystem();
    }

-    @Bean
+    @Produces
    public ApplicationProperties.Datasource datasource() {
        return applicationProperties.getSystem().getDatasource();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "runningProOrHigher")
-    @Profile("default")
+    // @IfBuildProfile("core"): these NORMAL/default license @Named beans apply only to the core
+    // flavor. In proprietary EEAppConfig provides them (security profile) and in saas
+    // SaasLicenseOverride does (saas profile); registering this producer alongside those trips
+    // Qute's named-bean validation ("Duplicate key runningEE"), which does not honour @DefaultBean
+    // suppression - so gate to core outright. (In core, EEAppConfig/SaasLicenseOverride are not
+    // even on the classpath.)
+    @Produces
+    @IfBuildProfile("core")
+    @Named("runningProOrHigher")
    public boolean runningProOrHigher() {
        return false;
    }

-    @Bean(name = "runningEE")
-    @Profile("default")
+    @Produces
+    @IfBuildProfile("core")
+    @Named("runningEE")
    public boolean runningEnterprise() {
        return false;
    }

-    @Bean(name = "license")
-    @Profile("default")
+    @Produces
+    @IfBuildProfile("core")
+    @Named("license")
    public String licenseType() {
        return "NORMAL";
    }

-    @Bean(name = "scarfEnabled")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("scarfEnabled")
    public boolean scarfEnabled() {
        return applicationProperties.getSystem().isScarfEnabled();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "posthogEnabled")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("posthogEnabled")
    public boolean posthogEnabled() {
        return applicationProperties.getSystem().isPosthogEnabled();
    }

-    @Bean(name = "machineType")
+    @Produces
+    @Named("machineType")
    public String determineMachineType() {
        try {
            boolean isDocker = runningInDocker();
            boolean isKubernetes = System.getenv("KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST") != null;
-            boolean isBrowserOpen = "true".equalsIgnoreCase(env.getProperty("BROWSER_OPEN"));
+            boolean isBrowserOpen =
+                    "true"
+                            .equalsIgnoreCase(
+                                    config.getOptionalValue("BROWSER_OPEN", String.class)
+                                            .orElse(null));

            if (isKubernetes) {
                return "Kubernetes";
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+package stirling.software.common.configuration;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
+import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.Config;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.ConfigProvider;
+
+import io.quarkus.arc.ClientProxy;
+import io.quarkus.runtime.StartupEvent;
+
+import jakarta.annotation.Priority;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.event.Observes;
+import jakarta.inject.Inject;
+import jakarta.interceptor.Interceptor;
+
+import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
+
+import stirling.software.common.model.ApplicationProperties;
+
+/**
+ * Binds MicroProfile/Quarkus config (env vars, {@code settings.yml} via {@link
+ * SettingsYamlConfigSource}, {@code application.properties}, system properties) onto the mutable
+ * {@link ApplicationProperties} bean at startup - the Quarkus replacement for the Spring
+ * {@code @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "")} relaxed binding that was lost in the migration.
+ *
+ * <p>Rather than hand-listing each property, this walks the whole {@code ApplicationProperties}
+ * object graph by reflection and, for every scalar / enum / scalar-list field, applies the value
+ * from config when one is present (so unset fields keep their Java default). The dotted key for a
+ * field mirrors its path in the tree ({@code security.oauth2.client.keycloak.clientId}, {@code
+ * endpoints.toRemove}, ...); SmallRye then resolves it from any source - e.g. env var {@code
+ * SECURITY_OAUTH2_CLIENT_KEYCLOAK_CLIENTID} or the same key in {@code settings.yml} - with the
+ * usual precedence (sys props &gt; env &gt; settings.yml &gt; application.properties).
+ *
+ * <p>This is the behaviour Spring had: every settings.yml / {@code SECURITY_*}/{@code STORAGE_*}
+ * /{@code PREMIUM_*} value is honoured, fixing the whole {@code maxDPI=0} / {@code enableLogin}
+ * /{@code endpoints.toRemove} / premium-license class of "ignored config" bugs at once.
+ *
+ * <p>Runs with {@code @Priority(APPLICATION)} so it completes before startup consumers read the
+ * bean: {@code InitialSecuritySetup} (enableLogin / customGlobalAPIKey), {@code
+ * EndpointConfiguration} (endpoints.toRemove), and {@code LicenseKeyChecker.onApplicationReady}
+ * (premium.enabled / premium.key, which has the lower default observer priority 2500).
+ *
+ * <p>Values are never logged - only key names at DEBUG and a total at INFO - because the tree
+ * carries secrets (premium key, client secrets, initial-login password, SMTP/Telegram tokens).
+ */
+@Slf4j
+@ApplicationScoped
+public class ApplicationPropertiesConfigOverlay {
+
+    private static final int MAX_DEPTH = 20;
+
+    @Inject ApplicationProperties applicationProperties;
+
+    void onStart(@Observes @Priority(Interceptor.Priority.APPLICATION) StartupEvent event) {
+        Config config = ConfigProvider.getConfig();
+        // ApplicationProperties is @ApplicationScoped, so the injected reference is a client proxy;
+        // reflect over the real contextual instance (its getters delegate, but getDeclaredFields()
+        // on the proxy would not see the model fields).
+        Object root = applicationProperties;
+        if (root instanceof ClientProxy proxy) {
+            root = proxy.arc_contextualInstance();
+        }
+        int[] applied = {0};
+        bind(root, "", config, 0, applied);
+        log.info(
+                "Applied {} configuration override(s) onto ApplicationProperties"
+                        + " (settings.yml + environment)",
+                applied[0]);
+    }
+
+    private void bind(Object node, String prefix, Config config, int depth, int[] applied) {
+        if (node == null || depth > MAX_DEPTH) {
+            return;
+        }
+        for (Field field : node.getClass().getDeclaredFields()) {
+            int mods = field.getModifiers();
+            if (Modifier.isStatic(mods) || field.isSynthetic()) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            String key = prefix.isEmpty() ? field.getName() : prefix + "." + field.getName();
+            Class<?> type = field.getType();
+            try {
+                field.setAccessible(true);
+                if (isModelType(type)) {
+                    Object child = field.get(node);
+                    if (child == null) {
+                        child = instantiate(type);
+                        if (child != null) {
+                            field.set(node, child);
+                        }
+                    }
+                    bind(child, key, config, depth + 1, applied);
+                } else if (List.class.isAssignableFrom(type)) {
+                    Class<?> element = listElementType(field);
+                    if (element != null && isLeaf(element)) {
+                        config.getOptionalValues(key, element)
+                                .ifPresent(value -> apply(field, node, value, key, applied));
+                    }
+                    // List<model-type> has no flat scalar representation here - skip.
+                } else if (isLeaf(type)) {
+                    config.getOptionalValue(key, box(type))
+                            .ifPresent(value -> apply(field, node, value, key, applied));
+                }
+                // Maps and other container/unsupported types are left to their Java defaults.
+            } catch (Exception ex) {
+                // Per-field best effort: an unconvertible value or inaccessible field must not
+                // abort
+                // the whole overlay. Never include the value (may be a secret).
+                log.debug("Skipped config binding for {} ({})", key, ex.toString());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void apply(Field field, Object node, Object value, String key, int[] applied) {
+        try {
+            field.set(node, value);
+            applied[0]++;
+            // Key name only - the value may be a secret (license key, password, client secret).
+            log.debug("Applied config override: {}", key);
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            log.debug("Failed to set {} ({})", key, ex.toString());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isModelType(Class<?> type) {
+        return type.getName().startsWith("stirling.software") && !type.isEnum();
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isLeaf(Class<?> type) {
+        return type == String.class
+                || type.isEnum()
+                || type.isPrimitive()
+                || type == Boolean.class
+                || type == Integer.class
+                || type == Long.class
+                || type == Double.class
+                || type == Float.class
+                || type == Short.class
+                || type == Byte.class;
+    }
+
+    private static Class<?> box(Class<?> type) {
+        if (!type.isPrimitive()) {
+            return type;
+        }
+        if (type == boolean.class) {
+            return Boolean.class;
+        }
+        if (type == int.class) {
+            return Integer.class;
+        }
+        if (type == long.class) {
+            return Long.class;
+        }
+        if (type == double.class) {
+            return Double.class;
+        }
+        if (type == float.class) {
+            return Float.class;
+        }
+        if (type == short.class) {
+            return Short.class;
+        }
+        if (type == byte.class) {
+            return Byte.class;
+        }
+        return type;
+    }
+
+    private static Class<?> listElementType(Field field) {
+        Type generic = field.getGenericType();
+        if (generic instanceof ParameterizedType parameterized) {
+            Type[] args = parameterized.getActualTypeArguments();
+            if (args.length == 1 && args[0] instanceof Class<?> element) {
+                return element;
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    private static Object instantiate(Class<?> type) {
+        try {
+            return type.getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance();
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+}
@@ -1,28 +1,29 @@
 package stirling.software.common.configuration;

-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.inject.ConfigProperty;

 import com.posthog.java.PostHog;

 import jakarta.annotation.PreDestroy;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.inject.Produces;

 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

-@Configuration
+@ApplicationScoped
@Slf4j
 public class PostHogConfig {

-    @Value("${posthog.api.key}")
-    private String posthogApiKey;
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "posthog.api.key")
+    String posthogApiKey;

-    @Value("${posthog.host}")
-    private String posthogHost;
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "posthog.host")
+    String posthogHost;

    private PostHog postHogClient;

-    @Bean
+    @Produces
+    @ApplicationScoped
    public PostHog postHogClient() {
        postHogClient =
                new PostHog.Builder(posthogApiKey)
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 package stirling.software.common.configuration;

-import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
-
 import com.posthog.java.PostHogLogger;

+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

@Slf4j
-@Component
+@ApplicationScoped
 public class PostHogLoggerImpl implements PostHogLogger {

    @Override
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;

 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.Getter;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ import stirling.software.common.util.ProcessExecutor;
 import stirling.software.common.util.UnoServerPool;

@Slf4j
-@Configuration
+@ApplicationScoped
@Getter
 public class RuntimePathConfig {
    private final ApplicationProperties properties;
@@ -1,23 +1,19 @@
 package stirling.software.common.configuration;

-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
-import org.springframework.scheduling.TaskScheduler;
-import org.springframework.scheduling.concurrent.SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler;
-
 /**
 * Configures the scheduler used by all {@code @Scheduled} methods. Uses virtual threads so that
 * long-running scheduled tasks (e.g. cleanup, license checks, file monitoring) never block each
 * other — each runs on its own lightweight virtual thread.
+ *
+ * <p>MIGRATION (Spring -> Quarkus): the custom Spring {@code TaskScheduler} bean has been removed.
+ * Quarkus' {@code quarkus-scheduler} extension owns the scheduling thread pool, so no application
+ * bean is required. To keep the "each scheduled task on its own virtual thread" behaviour, annotate
+ * the individual {@code @io.quarkus.scheduler.Scheduled} methods with
+ * {@code @io.smallrye.common.annotation.RunOnVirtualThread} (or configure {@code
+ * quarkus.scheduler.use-virtual-threads=true} where supported).
+ *
+ * <p>TODO: Migration required - any injection point that received the former Spring {@code
+ * TaskScheduler} bean must be rewritten to use the Quarkus scheduler API or a CDI-managed {@code
+ * java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService}.
 */
-@Configuration
-public class SchedulingConfig {
-
-    @Bean
-    public TaskScheduler taskScheduler() {
-        SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler scheduler = new SimpleAsyncTaskScheduler();
-        scheduler.setVirtualThreads(true);
-        scheduler.setThreadNamePrefix("scheduled-vt-");
-        return scheduler;
-    }
-}
+public class SchedulingConfig {}
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+package stirling.software.common.configuration;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.spi.ConfigSource;
+import org.snakeyaml.engine.v2.api.Load;
+import org.snakeyaml.engine.v2.api.LoadSettings;
+
+/**
+ * Exposes {@code settings.yml} (and {@code custom_settings.yml}, with the bundled {@code
+ * settings.yml.template} as the default fallback) as a MicroProfile/SmallRye {@link ConfigSource}.
+ *
+ * <p>Restores the Spring {@code @ConfigurationProperties} behaviour that bound {@code settings.yml}
+ * into {@code ApplicationProperties}: without this the YAML was never read under Quarkus, so flags
+ * like {@code security.enableLogin} fell back to their Java defaults regardless of the file (the
+ * {@code enableLogin=false}/{@code maxDPI=0}/{@code loginAttemptCount=0} class of bugs). The nested
+ * YAML is flattened to dotted keys ({@code security.enableLogin -> "true"}); {@link
+ * ApplicationPropertiesConfigOverlay} and {@code @ConfigProperty} injections then read them.
+ *
+ * <p>Ordinal {@value #ORDINAL} sits above {@code application.properties} (250) but below
+ * environment variables (300) and system properties (400), matching Spring's precedence - e.g.
+ * {@code SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN} still overrides the file.
+ *
+ * <p>Registered via {@code META-INF/services/org.eclipse.microprofile.config.spi.ConfigSource}.
+ */
+public class SettingsYamlConfigSource implements ConfigSource {
+
+    private static final int ORDINAL = 275;
+
+    private final Map<String, String> properties;
+
+    public SettingsYamlConfigSource() {
+        this.properties = load();
+    }
+
+    private static Map<String, String> load() {
+        Map<String, String> flat = new HashMap<>();
+        // 1. Bundled template provides the defaults (e.g. security.enableLogin: true).
+        try (InputStream in =
+                SettingsYamlConfigSource.class
+                        .getClassLoader()
+                        .getResourceAsStream("settings.yml.template")) {
+            if (in != null) {
+                flatten("", loadYaml(in), flat);
+            }
+        } catch (Exception ignored) {
+            // best effort - fall through to file overrides / Java defaults
+        }
+        // 2. The user's settings.yml overrides the template.
+        mergeFile(InstallationPathConfig.getSettingsPath(), flat);
+        // 3. custom_settings.yml overrides settings.yml.
+        mergeFile(InstallationPathConfig.getCustomSettingsPath(), flat);
+        return flat;
+    }
+
+    private static void mergeFile(String path, Map<String, String> flat) {
+        try {
+            Path p = Path.of(path);
+            if (Files.isRegularFile(p)) {
+                try (InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(p)) {
+                    flatten("", loadYaml(in), flat);
+                }
+            }
+        } catch (Exception ignored) {
+            // unreadable/invalid file - keep whatever defaults were already loaded
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static Object loadYaml(InputStream in) {
+        return new Load(LoadSettings.builder().build()).loadFromInputStream(in);
+    }
+
+    private static void flatten(String prefix, Object node, Map<String, String> out) {
+        if (node instanceof Map<?, ?> map) {
+            for (Map.Entry<?, ?> e : map.entrySet()) {
+                String key =
+                        prefix.isEmpty() ? String.valueOf(e.getKey()) : prefix + "." + e.getKey();
+                flatten(key, e.getValue(), out);
+            }
+        } else if (node instanceof List<?> list) {
+            // Emit scalar lists as a comma-separated value so SmallRye binds them via
+            // config.getValues()/getOptionalValues() (e.g. endpoints.toRemove, consumed by
+            // EndpointConfiguration to disable endpoints). Lists containing maps/nested lists have
+            // no
+            // flat scalar form, so skip those - their consumers read them structurally, not through
+            // this overlay. The scalar lists here (endpoint names, group names) contain no commas,
+            // so
+            // a plain join round-trips cleanly.
+            boolean scalarList =
+                    !list.isEmpty()
+                            && list.stream()
+                                    .allMatch(
+                                            e ->
+                                                    e != null
+                                                            && !(e instanceof Map)
+                                                            && !(e instanceof List));
+            if (scalarList) {
+                out.put(
+                        prefix,
+                        list.stream()
+                                .map(String::valueOf)
+                                .collect(java.util.stream.Collectors.joining(",")));
+            }
+            return;
+        } else if (node != null) {
+            out.put(prefix, String.valueOf(node));
+        }
+        // null leaves are left unset so the Java default applies.
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Map<String, String> getProperties() {
+        return properties;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Set<String> getPropertyNames() {
+        return properties.keySet();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getValue(String propertyName) {
+        return properties.get(propertyName);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getName() {
+        return "settings.yml";
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int getOrdinal() {
+        return ORDINAL;
+    }
+}
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-package stirling.software.common.configuration;
-
-import java.util.Properties;
-
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.YamlPropertiesFactoryBean;
-import org.springframework.core.env.PropertiesPropertySource;
-import org.springframework.core.env.PropertySource;
-import org.springframework.core.io.support.EncodedResource;
-import org.springframework.core.io.support.PropertySourceFactory;
-
-public class YamlPropertySourceFactory implements PropertySourceFactory {
-
-    @Override
-    public PropertySource<?> createPropertySource(String name, EncodedResource encodedResource) {
-        YamlPropertiesFactoryBean factory = new YamlPropertiesFactoryBean();
-        factory.setResources(encodedResource.getResource());
-        Properties properties = factory.getObject();
-
-        return new PropertiesPropertySource(
-                encodedResource.getResource().getFilename(), properties);
-    }
-}
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package stirling.software.common.model;

 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
@@ -15,22 +14,11 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.UUID;

-import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
-import org.springframework.core.Ordered;
-import org.springframework.core.annotation.Order;
-import org.springframework.core.env.ConfigurableEnvironment;
-import org.springframework.core.env.PropertySource;
-import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
-import org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource;
-import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
-import org.springframework.core.io.support.EncodedResource;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
-
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;

 import jakarta.annotation.PostConstruct;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.Data;
 import lombok.Getter;
@@ -39,9 +27,11 @@ import lombok.ToString;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

 import stirling.software.common.configuration.InstallationPathConfig;
-import stirling.software.common.configuration.YamlPropertySourceFactory;
 import stirling.software.common.constants.JwtConstants;
 import stirling.software.common.model.exception.UnsupportedProviderException;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.ClassPathResource;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.FileSystemResource;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.Resource;
 import stirling.software.common.model.oauth2.GitHubProvider;
 import stirling.software.common.model.oauth2.GoogleProvider;
 import stirling.software.common.model.oauth2.KeycloakProvider;
@@ -51,9 +41,12 @@ import stirling.software.common.util.ValidationUtils;

@Data
@Slf4j
-@Component
-@Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
-@ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "")
+@ApplicationScoped
+// TODO: Migration required - rebind via @io.smallrye.config.ConfigMapping or
+// @io.quarkus.arc.config.ConfigProperties. Was Spring @ConfigurationProperties(prefix = ""),
+// kept here as a plain CDI bean POJO; the property binding is not yet wired in Quarkus.
+// TODO: Migration required - Spring @Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE) controlled
+// configuration-bean ordering; there is no equivalent CDI ordering annotation for this bean.
 public class ApplicationProperties {

    private Legal legal = new Legal();
@@ -82,38 +75,17 @@ public class ApplicationProperties {
    private Cluster cluster = new Cluster();
    private Policies policies = new Policies();

-    @Bean
-    public PropertySource<?> dynamicYamlPropertySource(ConfigurableEnvironment environment)
-            throws IOException {
-        String configPath = InstallationPathConfig.getSettingsPath();
-        log.debug("Attempting to load settings from: {}", configPath);
-
-        File file = new File(configPath);
-        if (!file.exists()) {
-            log.error("Warning: Settings file does not exist at: {}", configPath);
-        }
-
-        Resource resource = new FileSystemResource(configPath);
-        if (!resource.exists()) {
-            throw new FileNotFoundException("Settings file not found at: " + configPath);
-        }
-
-        EncodedResource encodedResource = new EncodedResource(resource);
-        PropertySource<?> propertySource =
-                new YamlPropertySourceFactory().createPropertySource(null, encodedResource);
-
-        boolean saasActive = Arrays.asList(environment.getActiveProfiles()).contains("saas");
-        if (saasActive) {
-            // Saas-pinned values in application-saas.properties must beat settings.yml.
-            environment.getPropertySources().addLast(propertySource);
-        } else {
-            environment.getPropertySources().addFirst(propertySource);
-        }
-
-        log.debug("Loaded properties: {}", propertySource.getSource());
-
-        return propertySource;
-    }
+    // REMOVED (Spring -> Quarkus): dynamicYamlPropertySource(ConfigurableEnvironment).
+    // This was a Spring @Bean that registered settings.yml as an extra runtime PropertySource on
+    // the
+    // ConfigurableEnvironment (added first, or last under the "saas" profile). Quarkus has no
+    // ConfigurableEnvironment/PropertySource model and the @Bean had already been removed, so the
+    // method was dead code referencing Spring-only types.
+    // TODO: Migration required - reimplement external settings.yml loading as a custom
+    // org.eclipse.microprofile.config.spi.ConfigSource (registered via a ConfigSourceProvider /
+    // META-INF/services), giving it an ordinal that reproduces the old precedence: higher than the
+    // application defaults normally, but lower than application-saas.properties under the saas
+    // profile. Wire it in ConfigInitializer.

    /**
     * Initialize fileUploadLimit from environment variables if not set in settings.yml. Supports
@@ -522,8 +494,12 @@ public class ApplicationProperties {
        private InitialLogin initialLogin = new InitialLogin();
        private OAUTH2 oauth2 = new OAUTH2();
        private SAML2 saml2 = new SAML2();
-        private int loginAttemptCount;
-        private long loginResetTimeMinutes;
+        // Defaults mirror settings.yml.template. These primitives are not bound from the template
+        // by the current Quarkus config path, so an unset 0 means "lock after 0 attempts" (every
+        // login blocked, and the lockout never accumulates a window) - same class of bug as
+        // maxDPI=0. See the settings.yml binding TODO.
+        private int loginAttemptCount = 5;
+        private long loginResetTimeMinutes = 120;
        private String loginMethod = "all";
        private String customGlobalAPIKey;
        private Jwt jwt = new Jwt();
@@ -608,8 +584,9 @@ public class ApplicationProperties {
            @JsonIgnore
            public InputStream getIdpMetadataUri() throws IOException {
                if (idpMetadataUri.startsWith("classpath:")) {
-                    return new ClassPathResource(idpMetadataUri.substring("classpath:".length()))
-                            .getInputStream();
+                    return getClass()
+                            .getClassLoader()
+                            .getResourceAsStream(idpMetadataUri.substring("classpath:".length()));
                }
                try {
                    URI uri = new URI(idpMetadataUri);
@@ -622,6 +599,9 @@ public class ApplicationProperties {
                }
            }

+            // TODO: Migration required - returns org.springframework.core.io.Resource, a public
+            // signature relied on by callers. Converting to InputStream/byte[]/java.nio would
+            // ripple to those call sites, so the Spring Resource type is retained for now.
            @JsonIgnore
            public Resource getSpCert() {
                if (spCert == null) return null;
@@ -632,6 +612,9 @@ public class ApplicationProperties {
                }
            }

+            // TODO: Migration required - returns org.springframework.core.io.Resource, a public
+            // signature relied on by callers. Converting to InputStream/byte[]/java.nio would
+            // ripple to those call sites, so the Spring Resource type is retained for now.
            @JsonIgnore
            public Resource getIdpCert() {
                if (idpCert == null) return null;
@@ -642,6 +625,9 @@ public class ApplicationProperties {
                }
            }

+            // TODO: Migration required - returns org.springframework.core.io.Resource, a public
+            // signature relied on by callers. Converting to InputStream/byte[]/java.nio would
+            // ripple to those call sites, so the Spring Resource type is retained for now.
            @JsonIgnore
            public Resource getPrivateKey() {
                if (privateKey == null) return null;
@@ -881,7 +867,10 @@ public class ApplicationProperties {
        private Boolean enableDesktopInstallSlide;
        private Datasource datasource;
        private boolean disableSanitize;
-        private int maxDPI;
+        // Default mirrors settings.yml.template (maxDPI: 500). Without an explicit default this
+        // primitive is 0, which makes every DPI check (dpi > maxDPI) fail with "maximum safe limit
+        // of 0" when the value is not populated from settings.
+        private int maxDPI = 500;
        private boolean enableUrlToPDF;
        private Html html = new Html();
        private CustomPaths customPaths = new CustomPaths();
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+package stirling.software.common.model;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.Resource;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for Spring's {@code
+ * org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile}.
+ *
+ * <p>Quarkus/JAX-RS has no drop-in equivalent for the {@code MultipartFile} abstraction that the
+ * service layer relies on (it exposes {@code org.jboss.resteasy.reactive.multipart.FileUpload} at
+ * the REST boundary instead). To avoid rewriting the public signatures of dozens of service and
+ * util methods across every module, this interface mirrors the subset of Spring's API that the
+ * codebase actually uses. Controllers adapt the inbound {@code FileUpload}/{@code byte[]} to one of
+ * the implementations ({@link stirling.software.common.model.multipart.ByteArrayMultipartFile},
+ * {@link stirling.software.common.model.multipart.FileUploadMultipartFile}) and pass it down
+ * unchanged.
+ *
+ * <p>TODO: Migration required - longer term, the REST boundary should standardise on {@code
+ * FileUpload}/{@code @RestForm} and this shim can be retired.
+ */
+public interface MultipartFile {
+
+    String getName();
+
+    String getOriginalFilename();
+
+    String getContentType();
+
+    boolean isEmpty();
+
+    long getSize();
+
+    byte[] getBytes() throws IOException;
+
+    InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * The content as a {@link Resource}. The default is a stream-backed resource; file-backed
+     * implementations (e.g. {@code FileUploadMultipartFile}) override this to enable zero-copy fast
+     * paths.
+     */
+    default Resource getResource() {
+        try {
+            return new stirling.software.common.model.io.InputStreamResource(
+                    getInputStream(), getOriginalFilename());
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new java.io.UncheckedIOException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    default void transferTo(File dest) throws IOException {
+        transferTo(dest.toPath());
+    }
+
+    default void transferTo(Path dest) throws IOException {
+        try (InputStream in = getInputStream()) {
+            // Spring's MultipartFile#transferTo overwrites an existing destination. Callers
+            // commonly
+            // pass a path from Files.createTempFile(...) (which has already created an empty file),
+            // so REPLACE_EXISTING is required - a plain Files.copy would throw FileAlreadyExists.
+            Files.copy(in, dest, java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
+        }
+    }
+}
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 package stirling.software.common.model.api;

-import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.media.Schema;

 import lombok.Data;
 import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;

+import stirling.software.common.model.MultipartFile;
+
@Data
@EqualsAndHashCode
 public class GeneralFile {
@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 package stirling.software.common.model.api;

-import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
-import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
-
 import io.swagger.v3.oas.annotations.media.Schema;

 import jakarta.validation.constraints.AssertTrue;
@@ -11,6 +8,8 @@ import lombok.Data;
 import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
 import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;

+import stirling.software.common.model.MultipartFile;
+
@Data
@NoArgsConstructor
@EqualsAndHashCode
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ public class PDFFile {

    @Schema(
            description = "The input PDF file",
-            contentMediaType = MediaType.APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE,
+            contentMediaType = "application/pdf",
            format = "binary")
    private MultipartFile fileInput;

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package stirling.software.common.model.io;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+/** Classpath-backed {@link Resource} (migration shim for Spring's {@code ClassPathResource}). */
+public class ClassPathResource implements Resource {
+
+    private final String path;
+    private final ClassLoader classLoader;
+
+    public ClassPathResource(String path) {
+        this(path, ClassPathResource.class.getClassLoader());
+    }
+
+    public ClassPathResource(String path, ClassLoader classLoader) {
+        this.path = path.startsWith("/") ? path.substring(1) : path;
+        this.classLoader = classLoader != null ? classLoader : ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
+        InputStream is = classLoader.getResourceAsStream(path);
+        if (is == null) {
+            throw new IOException("class path resource [" + path + "] cannot be opened");
+        }
+        return is;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean exists() {
+        return classLoader.getResource(path) != null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getFilename() {
+        int sep = path.lastIndexOf('/');
+        return sep != -1 ? path.substring(sep + 1) : path;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long contentLength() throws IOException {
+        try (InputStream is = getInputStream()) {
+            long count = 0;
+            byte[] buf = new byte[8192];
+            int read;
+            while ((read = is.read(buf)) != -1) {
+                count += read;
+            }
+            return count;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public File getFile() throws IOException {
+        URL url = classLoader.getResource(path);
+        if (url == null || !"file".equals(url.getProtocol())) {
+            throw new IOException("class path resource [" + path + "] is not a filesystem file");
+        }
+        return new File(url.getFile());
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+package stirling.software.common.model.io;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+
+/** File-backed {@link Resource} (migration shim for Spring's {@code FileSystemResource}). */
+public class FileSystemResource implements Resource {
+
+    private final Path path;
+
+    public FileSystemResource(Path path) {
+        this.path = path;
+    }
+
+    public FileSystemResource(File file) {
+        this.path = file.toPath();
+    }
+
+    public FileSystemResource(String path) {
+        this.path = Path.of(path);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
+        return Files.newInputStream(path);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean exists() {
+        return Files.exists(path);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getFilename() {
+        Path name = path.getFileName();
+        return name == null ? null : name.toString();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long contentLength() throws IOException {
+        return Files.size(path);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isFile() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public File getFile() {
+        return path.toFile();
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+package stirling.software.common.model.io;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+/**
+ * Stream-backed {@link Resource} (migration shim for Spring's {@code InputStreamResource}). As with
+ * Spring, the stream can only be read once.
+ */
+public class InputStreamResource implements Resource {
+
+    private final InputStream inputStream;
+    private final String filename;
+
+    public InputStreamResource(InputStream inputStream) {
+        this(inputStream, null);
+    }
+
+    public InputStreamResource(InputStream inputStream, String filename) {
+        this.inputStream = inputStream;
+        this.filename = filename;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InputStream getInputStream() {
+        return inputStream;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean exists() {
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getFilename() {
+        return filename;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long contentLength() throws IOException {
+        // Spring's InputStreamResource also cannot report length without consuming the stream.
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public File getFile() throws IOException {
+        throw new IOException("InputStreamResource is not backed by a file");
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package stirling.software.common.model.io;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for Spring's {@code org.springframework.core.io.Resource}.
+ *
+ * <p>Quarkus/Jakarta has no single {@code Resource} abstraction. Rather than rewrite the many
+ * public method signatures across the codebase that accept or return {@code Resource}, this
+ * interface mirrors the subset of Spring's API the codebase actually uses ({@code
+ * getInputStream/exists/getFile/getFilename/contentLength/isFile}) together with the {@link
+ * FileSystemResource}, {@link InputStreamResource} and {@link ClassPathResource} implementations.
+ * Converting a file is then just an import swap.
+ *
+ * <p>TODO: Migration required - longer term, prefer {@code java.nio.file.Path} / {@code
+ * InputStream} directly at the boundaries and retire this shim.
+ */
+public interface Resource {
+
+    InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException;
+
+    boolean exists();
+
+    String getFilename();
+
+    long contentLength() throws IOException;
+
+    /** Whether this resource is backed by a real file in the filesystem. */
+    default boolean isFile() {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return the underlying file.
+     * @throws IOException if the resource is not file-backed.
+     */
+    File getFile() throws IOException;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+package stirling.software.common.model.multipart;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import stirling.software.common.model.MultipartFile;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.InputStreamResource;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.Resource;
+
+/**
+ * In-memory {@link MultipartFile} backed by a byte array. Useful for tests and for code paths that
+ * synthesize file content (migration shim - see {@link MultipartFile}).
+ */
+public class ByteArrayMultipartFile implements MultipartFile {
+
+    private final String name;
+    private final String originalFilename;
+    private final String contentType;
+    private final byte[] content;
+
+    public ByteArrayMultipartFile(
+            String name, String originalFilename, String contentType, byte[] content) {
+        this.name = name;
+        this.originalFilename = originalFilename;
+        this.contentType = contentType;
+        this.content = content != null ? content : new byte[0];
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getName() {
+        return name;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getOriginalFilename() {
+        return originalFilename;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getContentType() {
+        return contentType;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isEmpty() {
+        return content.length == 0;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long getSize() {
+        return content.length;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public byte[] getBytes() {
+        return content;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InputStream getInputStream() {
+        return new ByteArrayInputStream(content);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Resource getResource() {
+        return new InputStreamResource(new ByteArrayInputStream(content), originalFilename);
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+package stirling.software.common.model.multipart;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.jboss.resteasy.reactive.multipart.FileUpload;
+
+import stirling.software.common.model.MultipartFile;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.FileSystemResource;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.Resource;
+
+/**
+ * Adapts a Quarkus REST {@link FileUpload} (the inbound multipart representation at the JAX-RS
+ * boundary) to the {@link MultipartFile} migration shim, so controllers can pass uploads down to
+ * the existing service layer without changing its method signatures.
+ */
+public class FileUploadMultipartFile implements MultipartFile {
+
+    private final FileUpload delegate;
+
+    public FileUploadMultipartFile(FileUpload delegate) {
+        this.delegate = delegate;
+    }
+
+    /** Null-safe factory: returns null when the upload is absent. */
+    public static MultipartFile of(FileUpload upload) {
+        return upload == null ? null : new FileUploadMultipartFile(upload);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Null-safe factory for a multipart field that may have multiple parts under the same name.
+     *
+     * <p>Spring's MultipartFile binding picked the actual file part even when a client also sent a
+     * plain text form field of the same name; RESTEasy Reactive's {@code @RestForm FileUpload}
+     * binds the <em>first</em> part by name instead, so a stray {@code name=value} text part sent
+     * before the file would shadow the upload. Prefer the part that carries a real filename (the
+     * file), falling back to the last part, so such requests bind the same way they did under
+     * Spring.
+     */
+    public static MultipartFile of(List<FileUpload> uploads) {
+        if (uploads == null || uploads.isEmpty()) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        FileUpload chosen = null;
+        for (FileUpload upload : uploads) {
+            if (upload.fileName() != null && !upload.fileName().isBlank()) {
+                chosen = upload;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        if (chosen == null) {
+            chosen = uploads.get(uploads.size() - 1);
+        }
+        return new FileUploadMultipartFile(chosen);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getName() {
+        return delegate.name();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getOriginalFilename() {
+        return delegate.fileName();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getContentType() {
+        return delegate.contentType();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isEmpty() {
+        return getSize() == 0;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long getSize() {
+        return delegate.size();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public byte[] getBytes() throws IOException {
+        return Files.readAllBytes(delegate.uploadedFile());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
+        return Files.newInputStream(delegate.uploadedFile());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Resource getResource() {
+        // File-backed: enables FileStorage's zero-copy fast path.
+        return new FileSystemResource(delegate.uploadedFile());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void transferTo(Path dest) throws IOException {
+        // Overwrite semantics like Spring's MultipartFile#transferTo; callers often pass a
+        // Files.createTempFile(...) path that already exists, so REPLACE_EXISTING is required.
+        Files.copy(
+                delegate.uploadedFile(), dest, java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationToken}.
+ *
+ * <p>Base implementation of {@link Authentication} holding authorities, details and an
+ * authenticated flag.
+ */
+public abstract class AbstractAuthenticationToken implements Authentication {
+
+    private final List<GrantedAuthority> authorities;
+    private Object details;
+    private boolean authenticated = false;
+
+    protected AbstractAuthenticationToken(Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> authorities) {
+        if (authorities == null) {
+            this.authorities = Collections.emptyList();
+        } else {
+            List<GrantedAuthority> copy = new ArrayList<>(authorities.size());
+            for (GrantedAuthority authority : authorities) {
+                copy.add(authority);
+            }
+            this.authorities = Collections.unmodifiableList(copy);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> getAuthorities() {
+        return authorities;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object getCredentials() {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object getDetails() {
+        return details;
+    }
+
+    public void setDetails(Object details) {
+        this.details = details;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean isAuthenticated() {
+        return authenticated;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setAuthenticated(boolean authenticated) throws IllegalArgumentException {
+        this.authenticated = authenticated;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getName() {
+        Object principal = getPrincipal();
+        if (principal instanceof UserDetails) {
+            return ((UserDetails) principal).getUsername();
+        }
+        return principal == null ? null : principal.toString();
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import java.security.Principal;
+import java.util.Collection;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code org.springframework.security.core.Authentication}.
+ *
+ * <p>Represents the token for an authentication request or for an authenticated principal once the
+ * request has been processed.
+ */
+public interface Authentication extends Principal {
+
+    Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> getAuthorities();
+
+    Object getCredentials();
+
+    Object getDetails();
+
+    Object getPrincipal();
+
+    boolean isAuthenticated();
+
+    void setAuthenticated(boolean isAuthenticated) throws IllegalArgumentException;
+
+    @Override
+    String getName();
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.core.AuthenticationException}.
+ *
+ * <p>Abstract superclass for all exceptions related to an {@link Authentication} object being
+ * invalid for whatever reason.
+ */
+public class AuthenticationException extends RuntimeException {
+
+    public AuthenticationException(String msg) {
+        super(msg);
+    }
+
+    public AuthenticationException(String msg, Throwable cause) {
+        super(msg, cause);
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import at.favre.lib.crypto.bcrypt.BCrypt;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.crypto.bcrypt.BCryptPasswordEncoder}.
+ *
+ * <p>Implementation of {@link PasswordEncoder} backed by the {@code at.favre.lib:bcrypt} library.
+ */
+public class BCryptPasswordEncoder implements PasswordEncoder {
+
+    private static final int DEFAULT_STRENGTH = 10;
+
+    private final int strength;
+
+    public BCryptPasswordEncoder() {
+        this(DEFAULT_STRENGTH);
+    }
+
+    public BCryptPasswordEncoder(int strength) {
+        this.strength = strength;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String encode(CharSequence rawPassword) {
+        if (rawPassword == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("rawPassword cannot be null");
+        }
+        return BCrypt.withDefaults().hashToString(strength, rawPassword.toString().toCharArray());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean matches(CharSequence rawPassword, String encodedPassword) {
+        if (rawPassword == null) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("rawPassword cannot be null");
+        }
+        if (encodedPassword == null || encodedPassword.isEmpty()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        return BCrypt.verifyer()
+                .verify(rawPassword.toString().toCharArray(), encodedPassword)
+                .verified;
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.authentication.BadCredentialsException}.
+ *
+ * <p>Thrown if an authentication request is rejected because the credentials are invalid.
+ */
+public class BadCredentialsException extends AuthenticationException {
+
+    public BadCredentialsException(String msg) {
+        super(msg);
+    }
+
+    public BadCredentialsException(String msg, Throwable cause) {
+        super(msg, cause);
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code org.springframework.security.core.GrantedAuthority}.
+ *
+ * <p>Represents an authority granted to an {@link Authentication} object. Provided so that code
+ * migrated from Spring Boot to Quarkus compiles without Spring Security on the classpath.
+ */
+public interface GrantedAuthority {
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a textual representation of the granted authority.
+     *
+     * @return the authority string, never {@code null}
+     */
+    String getAuthority();
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.oauth2.core.user.OAuth2User}.
+ *
+ * <p>Represents a user {@link java.security.Principal} authenticated using OAuth 2.0 or OpenID
+ * Connect.
+ */
+public interface OAuth2User {
+
+    Map<String, Object> getAttributes();
+
+    Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> getAuthorities();
+
+    String getName();
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.crypto.password.PasswordEncoder}.
+ *
+ * <p>Service interface for encoding passwords.
+ */
+public interface PasswordEncoder {
+
+    /** Encodes the raw password. */
+    String encode(CharSequence rawPassword);
+
+    /** Verifies that the encoded password matches the raw password after it too is encoded. */
+    boolean matches(CharSequence rawPassword, String encodedPassword);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import java.util.Date;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.PersistentRememberMeToken}.
+ *
+ * <p>Holds the persistent remember-me token data for a single series.
+ */
+public class PersistentRememberMeToken {
+
+    private final String username;
+    private final String series;
+    private final String tokenValue;
+    private final Date date;
+
+    public PersistentRememberMeToken(String username, String series, String tokenValue, Date date) {
+        this.username = username;
+        this.series = series;
+        this.tokenValue = tokenValue;
+        this.date = date;
+    }
+
+    public String getUsername() {
+        return username;
+    }
+
+    public String getSeries() {
+        return series;
+    }
+
+    public String getTokenValue() {
+        return tokenValue;
+    }
+
+    public Date getDate() {
+        return date;
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import java.util.Date;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.web.authentication.rememberme.PersistentTokenRepository}.
+ *
+ * <p>Persists the remember-me tokens used by the persistent token based remember-me services.
+ */
+public interface PersistentTokenRepository {
+
+    void createNewToken(PersistentRememberMeToken token);
+
+    void updateToken(String series, String tokenValue, Date lastUsed);
+
+    PersistentRememberMeToken getTokenForSeries(String seriesId);
+
+    void removeUserTokens(String username);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContext}.
+ *
+ * <p>Holds the {@link Authentication} associated with the current execution.
+ */
+public interface SecurityContext {
+
+    Authentication getAuthentication();
+
+    void setAuthentication(Authentication authentication);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextHolder}.
+ *
+ * <p>Associates a {@link SecurityContext} with the current thread of execution using a {@link
+ * ThreadLocal}.
+ */
+public final class SecurityContextHolder {
+
+    private static final ThreadLocal<SecurityContext> CONTEXT_HOLDER = new ThreadLocal<>();
+
+    private SecurityContextHolder() {}
+
+    /** Returns the context for the current thread, creating an empty one if none is set. */
+    public static SecurityContext getContext() {
+        SecurityContext context = CONTEXT_HOLDER.get();
+        if (context == null) {
+            context = createEmptyContext();
+            CONTEXT_HOLDER.set(context);
+        }
+        return context;
+    }
+
+    public static void setContext(SecurityContext context) {
+        CONTEXT_HOLDER.set(context);
+    }
+
+    public static void clearContext() {
+        CONTEXT_HOLDER.remove();
+    }
+
+    public static SecurityContext createEmptyContext() {
+        return new SecurityContextImpl();
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.core.context.SecurityContextImpl}.
+ *
+ * <p>Basic concrete implementation of {@link SecurityContext}.
+ */
+public class SecurityContextImpl implements SecurityContext {
+
+    private Authentication authentication;
+
+    public SecurityContextImpl() {}
+
+    public SecurityContextImpl(Authentication authentication) {
+        this.authentication = authentication;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Authentication getAuthentication() {
+        return authentication;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setAuthentication(Authentication authentication) {
+        this.authentication = authentication;
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import java.util.Date;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.core.session.SessionInformation}.
+ *
+ * <p>Represents a record of a session within the application's session registry.
+ */
+public class SessionInformation {
+
+    private final Object principal;
+    private final String sessionId;
+    private Date lastRequest;
+    private boolean expired = false;
+
+    public SessionInformation(Object principal, String sessionId, Date lastRequest) {
+        this.principal = principal;
+        this.sessionId = sessionId;
+        this.lastRequest = lastRequest;
+    }
+
+    public Object getPrincipal() {
+        return principal;
+    }
+
+    public String getSessionId() {
+        return sessionId;
+    }
+
+    public Date getLastRequest() {
+        return lastRequest;
+    }
+
+    public boolean isExpired() {
+        return expired;
+    }
+
+    public void expireNow() {
+        this.expired = true;
+    }
+
+    public void refreshLastRequest() {
+        this.lastRequest = new Date();
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.core.session.SessionRegistry}.
+ *
+ * <p>Maintains a registry of currently known principals and their sessions.
+ */
+public interface SessionRegistry {
+
+    List<Object> getAllPrincipals();
+
+    List<SessionInformation> getAllSessions(Object principal, boolean includeExpiredSessions);
+
+    SessionInformation getSessionInformation(String sessionId);
+
+    void refreshLastRequest(String sessionId);
+
+    void registerNewSession(String sessionId, Object principal);
+
+    void removeSessionInformation(String sessionId);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.core.authority.SimpleGrantedAuthority}.
+ *
+ * <p>A basic, immutable {@link GrantedAuthority} backed by a single string.
+ */
+public class SimpleGrantedAuthority implements GrantedAuthority {
+
+    private final String authority;
+
+    public SimpleGrantedAuthority(String authority) {
+        this.authority = authority;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getAuthority() {
+        return authority;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        if (this == obj) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (!(obj instanceof SimpleGrantedAuthority)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        SimpleGrantedAuthority other = (SimpleGrantedAuthority) obj;
+        return Objects.equals(authority, other.authority);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        return Objects.hashCode(authority);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString() {
+        return authority;
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetails}.
+ *
+ * <p>Provides core user information used by the authentication layer.
+ */
+public interface UserDetails {
+
+    Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> getAuthorities();
+
+    String getPassword();
+
+    String getUsername();
+
+    boolean isAccountNonExpired();
+
+    boolean isAccountNonLocked();
+
+    boolean isCredentialsNonExpired();
+
+    boolean isEnabled();
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetailsService}.
+ *
+ * <p>Loads user-specific data, typically as part of an authentication flow.
+ */
+public interface UserDetailsService {
+
+    /**
+     * Locates the user based on the username.
+     *
+     * @param username the username identifying the user whose data is required
+     * @return a fully populated user record, never {@code null}
+     * @throws UsernameNotFoundException if the user could not be found
+     */
+    UserDetails loadUserByUsername(String username) throws UsernameNotFoundException;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UsernameNotFoundException}.
+ *
+ * <p>Thrown if a {@link UserDetailsService} implementation cannot locate a user by its username.
+ */
+public class UsernameNotFoundException extends AuthenticationException {
+
+    public UsernameNotFoundException(String msg) {
+        super(msg);
+    }
+
+    public UsernameNotFoundException(String msg, Throwable cause) {
+        super(msg, cause);
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package stirling.software.common.security;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+
+/**
+ * Migration compatibility shim for {@code
+ * org.springframework.security.authentication.UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken}.
+ *
+ * <p>An {@link Authentication} implementation designed for simple presentation of a username and
+ * password.
+ */
+public class UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken extends AbstractAuthenticationToken {
+
+    private final Object principal;
+    private Object credentials;
+
+    /** Creates an unauthenticated token (typically used as an authentication request). */
+    public UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(Object principal, Object credentials) {
+        super(null);
+        this.principal = principal;
+        this.credentials = credentials;
+        setAuthenticated(false);
+    }
+
+    /** Creates an authenticated token (typically the result of a successful authentication). */
+    public UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(
+            Object principal,
+            Object credentials,
+            Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> authorities) {
+        super(authorities);
+        this.principal = principal;
+        this.credentials = credentials;
+        super.setAuthenticated(true);
+    }
+
+    /** Factory method mirroring Spring Security 6 for creating an unauthenticated token. */
+    public static UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken unauthenticated(
+            Object principal, Object credentials) {
+        return new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(principal, credentials);
+    }
+
+    /** Factory method mirroring Spring Security 6 for creating an authenticated token. */
+    public static UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken authenticated(
+            Object principal,
+            Object credentials,
+            Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> authorities) {
+        return new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(principal, credentials, authorities);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object getCredentials() {
+        return credentials;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Object getPrincipal() {
+        return principal;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getName() {
+        if (principal instanceof UserDetails) {
+            return ((UserDetails) principal).getUsername();
+        }
+        return principal == null ? null : principal.toString();
+    }
+}
@@ -24,17 +24,18 @@ import org.apache.pdfbox.io.RandomAccessReadBufferedFile;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.io.RandomAccessStreamCache.StreamCacheCreateFunction;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.io.ScratchFile;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
-import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.inject.Inject;

 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

+import stirling.software.common.model.MultipartFile;
 import stirling.software.common.model.api.PDFFile;
 import stirling.software.common.util.ExceptionUtils;
 import stirling.software.common.util.TempFileManager;

-@Component
+@ApplicationScoped
@Slf4j
 public class CustomPDFDocumentFactory {

@@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ public class CustomPDFDocumentFactory {
    // class without a full Spring context. When null, falls back to Files.createTempFile().
    private final TempFileManager tempFileManager;

-    /** Primary constructor used by Spring. Both collaborators are required in production. */
-    @Autowired
+    /** Primary constructor used by CDI. Both collaborators are required in production. */
+    @Inject
    public CustomPDFDocumentFactory(
            PdfMetadataService pdfMetadataService, TempFileManager tempFileManager) {
        this.pdfMetadataService = pdfMetadataService;
@@ -4,18 +4,20 @@ import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.file.*;

-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
-import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.inject.ConfigProperty;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;

-@Service
+import stirling.software.common.model.MultipartFile;
+
+@ApplicationScoped
@RequiredArgsConstructor
 public class FileOrUploadService {

-    @Value("${stirling.tempDir:/tmp/stirling-files}")
-    private String tempDirPath;
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.tempDir", defaultValue = "/tmp/stirling-files")
+    String tempDirPath;

    public Path resolveFilePath(String fileId) {
        return Path.of(tempDirPath).resolve(fileId);
@@ -9,22 +9,23 @@ import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;

-import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
-import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.StreamingResponseBody;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.inject.Instance;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.StreamingOutput;

 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

 import stirling.software.common.cluster.FileStore;
+import stirling.software.common.model.MultipartFile;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.Resource;
 import stirling.software.common.util.JobContext;

 /**
 * Service for storing and retrieving files with unique file IDs. Used by the AutoJobPostMapping
 * system to handle file references. Disk I/O is delegated to the injected {@link FileStore} bean.
 */
-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
@RequiredArgsConstructor
@Slf4j
 public class FileStorage {
@@ -34,7 +35,12 @@ public class FileStorage {

    private final FileOrUploadService fileOrUploadService;
    private final FileStore fileStore;
-    private final Optional<JobOwnershipService> jobOwnershipService;
+
+    // MIGRATION: CDI does not inject java.util.Optional<T>. Optional<JobOwnershipService> is now
+    // jakarta.enterprise.inject.Instance<JobOwnershipService>, resolved via isResolvable()/get().
+    // Exactly one JobOwnershipService impl is selected at build time (Impl vs NoOp), so this is
+    // always resolvable in practice, but Instance<> keeps the previous optional contract.
+    private final Instance<JobOwnershipService> jobOwnershipService;

    public String storeFile(MultipartFile file) throws IOException {
        String owner = resolveOwner();
@@ -97,7 +103,7 @@ public class FileStorage {
        return new StoredFile(stored.fileId(), stored.size());
    }

-    public String storeFromStreamingBody(StreamingResponseBody body, String originalName)
+    public String storeFromStreamingBody(StreamingOutput body, String originalName)
            throws IOException {
        String owner = resolveOwner();
        // Hold Throwable not IOException: an unchecked failure (NPE, IllegalState, OOM, etc.)
@@ -113,7 +119,7 @@ public class FileStorage {
                        executor.submit(
                                () -> {
                                    try {
-                                        body.writeTo(out);
+                                        body.write(out);
                                    } catch (Throwable ex) {
                                        bodyError.set(ex);
                                    } finally {
@@ -142,10 +148,9 @@ public class FileStorage {
                        throw ioe;
                    }
                    throw new IOException(
-                            "StreamingResponseBody writer failed: " + writerErr.getMessage(),
-                            writerErr);
+                            "StreamingOutput writer failed: " + writerErr.getMessage(), writerErr);
                }
-                log.debug("Stored StreamingResponseBody with ID: {}", stored.fileId());
+                log.debug("Stored StreamingOutput with ID: {}", stored.fileId());
                return stored.fileId();
            } finally {
                // Interrupt and join the writer task: shutdown() alone returns immediately and a
@@ -194,11 +199,14 @@ public class FileStorage {
        if (propagated != null) {
            return propagated;
        }
-        return jobOwnershipService.flatMap(JobOwnershipService::getCurrentUserId).orElse(null);
+        if (!jobOwnershipService.isResolvable()) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return jobOwnershipService.get().getCurrentUserId().orElse(null);
    }

    private void enforceOwnership(String fileId) {
-        if (jobOwnershipService.isEmpty()) {
+        if (!jobOwnershipService.isResolvable()) {
            return;
        }
        Optional<String> currentUser = jobOwnershipService.get().getCurrentUserId();
@@ -1,31 +1,36 @@
 package stirling.software.common.service;

+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
+import java.net.ConnectException;
+import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URLDecoder;
+import java.net.http.HttpClient;
+import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
+import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
+import java.net.http.HttpTimeoutException;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.time.Duration;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;

-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
-import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
-import org.springframework.core.io.FileSystemResource;
-import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
-import org.springframework.http.*;
-import org.springframework.http.client.SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
-import org.springframework.util.MultiValueMap;
-import org.springframework.web.client.RequestCallback;
-import org.springframework.web.client.ResourceAccessException;
-import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.Config;

+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.inject.Instance;
 import jakarta.servlet.ServletContext;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response;

 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

 import stirling.software.common.model.ApplicationProperties;
 import stirling.software.common.model.enumeration.Role;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.FileSystemResource;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.Resource;
 import stirling.software.common.util.TempFile;
 import stirling.software.common.util.TempFileManager;

@@ -33,14 +38,21 @@ import stirling.software.common.util.TempFileManager;
 * Dispatches HTTP POST requests to internal Stirling API endpoints via loopback. Used by
 * PipelineProcessor and AiWorkflowService to execute tool operations programmatically without
 * leaving the JVM network stack.
+ *
+ * <p>MIGRATION (Spring -> Quarkus): the HTTP dispatch was rebuilt on {@link
+ * java.net.http.HttpClient} (replacing Spring's {@code RestTemplate}/{@code
+ * SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory}). The multipart body is encoded manually; {@code
+ * MultiValueMap<String,Object>} became {@code Map<String,List<Object>>} and {@code
+ * ResponseEntity<Resource>} became {@link Response}. {@code ResourceAccessException} timeout
+ * handling is now driven by {@link HttpTimeoutException}.
 */
-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
@Slf4j
 public class InternalApiClient {

    // Allowlist for internal dispatch. Matches fixed namespace prefixes,
    // but rejects traversal (..), URL-encoding (%), query/fragment, backslashes, and any other
-    // character that could alter the resolved endpoint on the local Spring server.
+    // character that could alter the resolved endpoint on the local server.
    //
    // The second alternation carves out `/api/v1/ai/tools/*` specifically — AI tools are
    // dispatchable, but the broader `/api/v1/ai/` surface (orchestrate, health, etc.) is
@@ -63,30 +75,30 @@ public class InternalApiClient {
    private final ServletContext servletContext;
    private final UserServiceInterface userService;
    private final TempFileManager tempFileManager;
-    private final Environment environment;
+    private final Config config;
    private final Duration readTimeout;
-    private final RestTemplate restTemplate;
+    private final HttpClient httpClient;

    public InternalApiClient(
            ServletContext servletContext,
-            @Autowired(required = false) UserServiceInterface userService,
+            Instance<UserServiceInterface> userService,
            TempFileManager tempFileManager,
-            Environment environment,
+            Config config,
            ApplicationProperties applicationProperties) {
        this.servletContext = servletContext;
-        this.userService = userService;
+        this.userService = userService.isResolvable() ? userService.get() : null;
        this.tempFileManager = tempFileManager;
-        this.environment = environment;
+        this.config = config;
        ApplicationProperties.InternalApi internalApi = applicationProperties.getInternalApi();
        // A bounded read timeout is what protects the workflow when an internal tool hangs
        // (e.g. an infinite loop in a PDF processing service). The connect timeout is short
        // because this is a loopback call; if connecting takes longer than a few seconds the
        // local server is itself unhealthy.
        this.readTimeout = Duration.ofSeconds(internalApi.getReadTimeoutSeconds());
-        SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory factory = new SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory();
-        factory.setConnectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(internalApi.getConnectTimeoutSeconds()));
-        factory.setReadTimeout(readTimeout);
-        this.restTemplate = new RestTemplate(factory);
+        this.httpClient =
+                HttpClient.newBuilder()
+                        .connectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(internalApi.getConnectTimeoutSeconds()))
+                        .build();
    }

    /**
@@ -94,78 +106,110 @@ public class InternalApiClient {
     * prefixes (e.g. {@code /api/v1/misc/compress-pdf}).
     *
     * @param endpointPath API path (e.g. {@code /api/v1/general/rotate-pdf})
-     * @param body multipart form body (fileInput + parameters)
-     * @return response with the result file as a {@link TempFileResource} body
+     * @param body multipart form body (fileInput + parameters): each value is either a {@link
+     *     Resource} (file part) or a {@code String} (form field)
+     * @return JAX-RS {@link Response} with the result file as a {@link TempFileResource} entity
     */
-    public ResponseEntity<Resource> post(String endpointPath, MultiValueMap<String, Object> body) {
+    public Response post(String endpointPath, Map<String, List<Object>> body) {
        validateUrl(endpointPath);
        String url = getBaseUrl() + endpointPath;

-        HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
+        String boundary = "----StirlingBoundary" + Long.toHexString(System.nanoTime());
+        byte[] multipartBody = encodeMultipart(body, boundary);
+
+        HttpRequest.Builder requestBuilder =
+                HttpRequest.newBuilder()
+                        .uri(URI.create(url))
+                        .timeout(readTimeout)
+                        .header("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary)
+                        .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofByteArray(multipartBody));
+
        String apiKey = getApiKeyForUser();
        if (apiKey != null && !apiKey.isEmpty()) {
-            headers.add("X-API-KEY", apiKey);
+            requestBuilder.header("X-API-KEY", apiKey);
        }
        // Tag the sub-step as automation so PAYG bills it under AUTOMATION regardless of which
        // tool-level @RequiresFeature annotation the dispatched controller carries (e.g. an AI-OCR
        // step inside a policy run must bill as AUTOMATION, not AI). Set unconditionally because
        // every caller of this dispatcher is an automation surface by design.
-        headers.add(AUTOMATION_HEADER, "true");
-
-        // A no-file ai/tools call (e.g. create-pdf-from-html-agent) sends only string params, so
-        // without this RestTemplate would use urlencoded instead of the multipart the controller
-        // expects. File-bearing calls get the right multipart content-type from RestTemplate.
-        boolean isAiTool = endpointPath.startsWith("/api/v1/ai/tools/");
-        boolean hasFilePart =
-                body.values().stream()
-                        .flatMap(java.util.List::stream)
-                        .anyMatch(v -> v instanceof Resource);
-        if (isAiTool && !hasFilePart) {
-            headers.setContentType(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA);
-        }
-        HttpEntity<MultiValueMap<String, Object>> entity = new HttpEntity<>(body, headers);
-        RequestCallback requestCallback = restTemplate.httpEntityCallback(entity, Resource.class);
+        requestBuilder.header(AUTOMATION_HEADER, "true");

        try {
-            return restTemplate.execute(
-                    url,
-                    HttpMethod.POST,
-                    requestCallback,
-                    response -> {
-                        try {
-                            TempFile tempFile =
-                                    tempFileManager.createManagedTempFile("internal-api");
-                            Files.copy(
-                                    response.getBody(),
-                                    tempFile.getPath(),
-                                    java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
-                            String filename = extractFilename(response.getHeaders());
-                            TempFileResource resource = new TempFileResource(tempFile, filename);
-                            return ResponseEntity.status(response.getStatusCode())
-                                    .headers(response.getHeaders())
-                                    .body(resource);
-                        } catch (IOException e) {
-                            throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
-                        }
-                    });
-        } catch (ResourceAccessException e) {
-            // RestTemplate wraps low-level I/O failures in ResourceAccessException. Only the
-            // SocketTimeoutException-rooted case is a real timeout; other I/O failures (connection
-            // refused, DNS, etc.) propagate as-is so the upstream generic handler can describe
-            // them accurately.
-            if (e.getCause() instanceof java.net.SocketTimeoutException) {
-                throw new InternalApiTimeoutException(endpointPath, readTimeout, e);
+            HttpResponse<InputStream> response =
+                    httpClient.send(
+                            requestBuilder.build(), HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofInputStream());
+            try (InputStream responseBody = response.body()) {
+                TempFile tempFile = tempFileManager.createManagedTempFile("internal-api");
+                Files.copy(
+                        responseBody,
+                        tempFile.getPath(),
+                        java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
+                String filename =
+                        extractFilename(
+                                response.headers().firstValue("Content-Disposition").orElse(null));
+                TempFileResource resource = new TempFileResource(tempFile, filename);
+                Response.ResponseBuilder rb =
+                        Response.status(response.statusCode()).entity(resource);
+                response.headers().map().forEach((k, vs) -> vs.forEach(v -> rb.header(k, v)));
+                return rb.build();
            }
-            throw e;
+        } catch (HttpTimeoutException e) {
+            throw new InternalApiTimeoutException(endpointPath, readTimeout, e);
+        } catch (ConnectException e) {
+            throw new UncheckedIOException(new IOException("Internal API connection failed", e));
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+            throw new RuntimeException("Internal API dispatch interrupted", e);
        }
    }

    /**
-     * Extract the filename from a response's {@code Content-Disposition} header. Returns {@code
-     * null} if the header is missing or has no filename.
+     * Encode a multipart/form-data body. File parts are {@link Resource}; others are form fields.
     */
-    private static String extractFilename(HttpHeaders headers) {
-        String contentDisposition = headers.getFirst(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_DISPOSITION);
+    private static byte[] encodeMultipart(Map<String, List<Object>> body, String boundary) {
+        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        try {
+            for (Map.Entry<String, List<Object>> entry : body.entrySet()) {
+                String name = entry.getKey();
+                for (Object value : entry.getValue()) {
+                    baos.write(("--" + boundary + "\r\n").getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                    if (value instanceof Resource resource) {
+                        String fn = resource.getFilename() != null ? resource.getFilename() : name;
+                        baos.write(
+                                ("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\""
+                                                + name
+                                                + "\"; filename=\""
+                                                + fn
+                                                + "\"\r\n"
+                                                + "Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n")
+                                        .getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                        try (InputStream in = resource.getInputStream()) {
+                            in.transferTo(baos);
+                        }
+                        baos.write("\r\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                    } else {
+                        baos.write(
+                                ("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"" + name + "\"\r\n\r\n")
+                                        .getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                        baos.write(String.valueOf(value).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                        baos.write("\r\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            baos.write(("--" + boundary + "--\r\n").getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
+        }
+        return baos.toByteArray();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Extract the filename from a {@code Content-Disposition} header value. Returns {@code null} if
+     * the header is missing or has no filename.
+     */
+    private static String extractFilename(String contentDisposition) {
        if (contentDisposition == null || contentDisposition.isBlank()) {
            return null;
        }
@@ -184,12 +228,13 @@ public class InternalApiClient {
    }

    private String getBaseUrl() {
-        // Resolve the port lazily so desktop mode (server.port=0, OS-assigned) dispatches to the
-        // actual bound port. Spring publishes local.server.port once the web server is up; fall
-        // back to the configured server.port for early calls (tests, non-web contexts).
-        String port = environment.getProperty("local.server.port");
+        // Resolve the port lazily so desktop mode dispatches to the actual bound port.
+        // TODO: Migration required - verify Quarkus exposes the bound port via config. Quarkus uses
+        // "quarkus.http.port" and, for random-port test/dev runs, "quarkus.http.test-port"; the old
+        // "local.server.port"/"server.port" keys came from Spring Boot's WebServerInitializedEvent.
+        String port = config.getOptionalValue("quarkus.http.port", String.class).orElse(null);
        if (port == null) {
-            port = environment.getProperty("server.port", "8080");
+            port = config.getOptionalValue("server.port", String.class).orElse("8080");
        }
        return "http://localhost:" + port + servletContext.getContextPath();
    }
@@ -9,51 +9,56 @@ import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
 import java.util.function.Supplier;

-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
-import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
-import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
-import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
-import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
-import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
-import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.StreamingResponseBody;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.inject.ConfigProperty;

-import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.inject.Instance;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.StreamingOutput;

 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

+import stirling.software.common.model.MultipartFile;
+import stirling.software.common.model.io.Resource;
 import stirling.software.common.model.job.JobResponse;
 import stirling.software.common.util.ExecutorFactory;
 import stirling.software.common.util.RegexPatternUtils;

 /** Service for executing jobs asynchronously or synchronously */
-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
@Slf4j
 public class JobExecutorService {

+    private static final String APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE = "application/pdf";
+
    private final TaskManager taskManager;
    private final FileStorage fileStorage;
-    private final HttpServletRequest request;
+    // Reactive-safe: the undertow HttpServletRequest proxy throws UT000048 on RESTEasy Reactive
+    // worker threads, so the per-request "jobId" attribute is stored on the Vert.x RoutingContext
+    // instead (read back via AutoJobAspect). Off a live request this degrades to a no-op.
+    private final io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.CurrentVertxRequest currentVertxRequest;
    private final ResourceMonitor resourceMonitor;
    private final JobQueue jobQueue;
    private final ExecutorService executor = ExecutorFactory.newVirtualThreadExecutor();
    private final long effectiveTimeoutMs;

-    @Autowired(required = false)
-    private JobOwnershipService jobOwnershipService;
+    @jakarta.inject.Inject Instance<JobOwnershipService> jobOwnershipService;

    public JobExecutorService(
            TaskManager taskManager,
            FileStorage fileStorage,
-            HttpServletRequest request,
+            io.quarkus.vertx.http.runtime.CurrentVertxRequest currentVertxRequest,
            ResourceMonitor resourceMonitor,
            JobQueue jobQueue,
-            @Value("${spring.mvc.async.request-timeout:1200000}") long asyncRequestTimeoutMs,
-            @Value("${server.servlet.session.timeout:30m}") String sessionTimeout) {
+            @ConfigProperty(name = "spring.mvc.async.request-timeout", defaultValue = "1200000")
+                    long asyncRequestTimeoutMs,
+            @ConfigProperty(name = "server.servlet.session.timeout", defaultValue = "30m")
+                    String sessionTimeout) {
        this.taskManager = taskManager;
        this.fileStorage = fileStorage;
-        this.request = request;
+        this.currentVertxRequest = currentVertxRequest;
        this.resourceMonitor = resourceMonitor;
        this.jobQueue = jobQueue;

@@ -63,16 +68,15 @@ public class JobExecutorService {
                "Job executor configured with effective timeout of {} ms", this.effectiveTimeoutMs);
    }

-    public ResponseEntity<?> runJobGeneric(boolean async, Supplier<Object> work) {
+    public Response runJobGeneric(boolean async, Supplier<Object> work) {
        return runJobGeneric(async, work, -1);
    }

-    public ResponseEntity<?> runJobGeneric(
-            boolean async, Supplier<Object> work, long customTimeoutMs) {
+    public Response runJobGeneric(boolean async, Supplier<Object> work, long customTimeoutMs) {
        return runJobGeneric(async, work, customTimeoutMs, false, 50);
    }

-    public ResponseEntity<?> runJobGeneric(
+    public Response runJobGeneric(
            boolean async,
            Supplier<Object> work,
            long customTimeoutMs,
@@ -83,15 +87,20 @@ public class JobExecutorService {

        log.debug("Generated jobId: {} (base: {})", scopedJobKey, baseJobId);

-        if (request != null) {
-            request.setAttribute("jobId", scopedJobKey);
+        try {
+            var current = currentVertxRequest.getCurrent();
+            if (current != null) {
+                current.put("jobId", scopedJobKey);
+            }
+        } catch (RuntimeException ignored) {
+            // No active request (e.g. async/background execution) - jobId attribute is optional.
        }

        String jobId = scopedJobKey;

        final String jobOwner =
-                jobOwnershipService != null
-                        ? jobOwnershipService.getCurrentUserId().orElse(null)
+                jobOwnershipService.isResolvable()
+                        ? jobOwnershipService.get().getCurrentUserId().orElse(null)
                        : null;

        long timeoutToUse = customTimeoutMs > 0 ? customTimeoutMs : effectiveTimeoutMs;
@@ -141,10 +150,10 @@ public class JobExecutorService {
                        }
                    };

-            CompletableFuture<ResponseEntity<?>> future =
+            CompletableFuture<Response> future =
                    jobQueue.queueJob(jobId, resourceWeight, wrappedWork, timeoutToUse);

-            return ResponseEntity.ok().body(new JobResponse<>(true, jobId, null));
+            return Response.ok(new JobResponse<>(true, jobId, null)).build();
        } else if (async) {
            taskManager.createTask(jobId);

@@ -173,7 +182,7 @@ public class JobExecutorService {
                        }
                    });

-            return ResponseEntity.ok().body(new JobResponse<>(true, jobId, null));
+            return Response.ok(new JobResponse<>(true, jobId, null)).build();
        } else {
            try {
                log.debug("Running sync job with timeout {} ms", timeoutToUse);
@@ -181,15 +190,16 @@ public class JobExecutorService {
                stirling.software.common.util.JobContext.setJobId(jobId);
                Object result = executeWithTimeout(() -> work.get(), timeoutToUse);

-                if (result instanceof ResponseEntity) {
-                    return (ResponseEntity<?>) result;
+                if (result instanceof Response) {
+                    return (Response) result;
                }

                return handleResultForSyncJob(result);
            } catch (TimeoutException te) {
                log.error("Synchronous job timed out after {} ms", timeoutToUse);
-                return ResponseEntity.internalServerError()
-                        .body(Map.of("error", "Job timed out after " + timeoutToUse + " ms"));
+                return Response.status(Response.Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)
+                        .entity(Map.of("error", "Job timed out after " + timeoutToUse + " ms"))
+                        .build();
            } catch (RuntimeException e) {
                Throwable cause = e.getCause();
                if (e instanceof IllegalArgumentException
@@ -203,12 +213,14 @@ public class JobExecutorService {
                    throw e;
                }
                log.error("Error executing synchronous job: {}", e.getMessage(), e);
-                return ResponseEntity.internalServerError()
-                        .body(Map.of("error", "Job failed: " + e.getMessage()));
+                return Response.status(Response.Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)
+                        .entity(Map.of("error", "Job failed: " + e.getMessage()))
+                        .build();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                log.error("Error executing synchronous job: {}", e.getMessage(), e);
-                return ResponseEntity.internalServerError()
-                        .body(Map.of("error", "Job failed: " + e.getMessage()));
+                return Response.status(Response.Status.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)
+                        .entity(Map.of("error", "Job failed: " + e.getMessage()))
+                        .build();
            } finally {
                stirling.software.common.util.JobContext.clear();
            }
@@ -219,12 +231,11 @@ public class JobExecutorService {
        try {
            if (result instanceof byte[]) {
                String fileId = fileStorage.storeBytes((byte[]) result, "result.pdf");
-                taskManager.setFileResult(
-                        jobId, fileId, "result.pdf", MediaType.APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE);
+                taskManager.setFileResult(jobId, fileId, "result.pdf", APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE);
                log.debug("Stored byte[] result with fileId: {}", fileId);
-            } else if (result instanceof ResponseEntity) {
-                ResponseEntity<?> response = (ResponseEntity<?>) result;
-                Object body = response.getBody();
+            } else if (result instanceof Response) {
+                Response response = (Response) result;
+                Object body = response.getEntity();

                if (body instanceof byte[]) {
                    String filename = extractResponseFilename(response);
@@ -232,23 +243,23 @@ public class JobExecutorService {

                    String fileId = fileStorage.storeBytes((byte[]) body, filename);
                    taskManager.setFileResult(jobId, fileId, filename, contentType);
-                    log.debug("Stored ResponseEntity<byte[]> result with fileId: {}", fileId);
-                } else if (body instanceof StreamingResponseBody streamingBody) {
+                    log.debug("Stored Response<byte[]> result with fileId: {}", fileId);
+                } else if (body instanceof StreamingOutput streamingBody) {
+                    // JAX-RS Response carries a StreamingOutput for streamed bodies (migrated from
+                    // Spring's StreamingResponseBody).
                    String filename = extractResponseFilename(response);
                    String contentType = extractResponseContentType(response);

                    String fileId = fileStorage.storeFromStreamingBody(streamingBody, filename);
                    taskManager.setFileResult(jobId, fileId, filename, contentType);
-                    log.debug(
-                            "Stored ResponseEntity<StreamingResponseBody> result with fileId: {}",
-                            fileId);
+                    log.debug("Stored Response<StreamingOutput> result with fileId: {}", fileId);
                } else if (body instanceof Resource resource) {
                    String filename = extractResponseFilename(response);
                    String contentType = extractResponseContentType(response);

                    String fileId = fileStorage.storeFromResource(resource, filename);
                    taskManager.setFileResult(jobId, fileId, filename, contentType);
-                    log.debug("Stored ResponseEntity<Resource> result with fileId: {}", fileId);
+                    log.debug("Stored Response<Resource> result with fileId: {}", fileId);
                } else {
                    if (body != null && body.toString().contains("fileId")) {
                        try {
@@ -258,7 +269,7 @@ public class JobExecutorService {

                            if (fileId != null && !fileId.isEmpty()) {
                                String filename = "result.pdf";
-                                String contentType = MediaType.APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE;
+                                String contentType = APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE;

                                try {
                                    java.lang.reflect.Method getOriginalFileName =
@@ -312,7 +323,7 @@ public class JobExecutorService {

                        if (fileId != null && !fileId.isEmpty()) {
                            String filename = "result.pdf";
-                            String contentType = MediaType.APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE;
+                            String contentType = APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE;

                            try {
                                java.lang.reflect.Method getOriginalFileName =
@@ -358,31 +369,35 @@ public class JobExecutorService {
        }
    }

-    private ResponseEntity<?> handleResultForSyncJob(Object result) throws IOException {
+    private Response handleResultForSyncJob(Object result) throws IOException {
        if (result instanceof byte[]) {
-            return ResponseEntity.ok()
-                    .contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_PDF)
+            return Response.ok(result)
+                    .type(MediaType.valueOf(APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE))
                    .header(
                            HttpHeaders.CONTENT_DISPOSITION,
                            "form-data; name=\"attachment\"; filename=\"result.pdf\"")
-                    .body(result);
+                    .build();
        } else if (result instanceof MultipartFile file) {
-            return ResponseEntity.ok()
-                    .contentType(MediaType.parseMediaType(file.getContentType()))
+            return Response.ok(file.getBytes())
+                    .type(MediaType.valueOf(file.getContentType()))
                    .header(
                            HttpHeaders.CONTENT_DISPOSITION,
                            "form-data; name=\"attachment\"; filename=\""
                                    + file.getOriginalFilename()
                                    + "\"")
-                    .body(file.getBytes());
+                    .build();
        } else {
-            return ResponseEntity.ok(result);
+            return Response.ok(result).build();
        }
    }

-    private static String extractResponseFilename(ResponseEntity<?> response) {
-        if (response.getHeaders().getContentDisposition() != null) {
-            String filename = response.getHeaders().getContentDisposition().getFilename();
+    private static String extractResponseFilename(Response response) {
+        // JAX-RS exposes Content-Disposition as a raw header string; parse the filename token out
+        // of
+        // it (Spring previously used ContentDisposition#getFilename()).
+        String contentDisposition = response.getHeaderString(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_DISPOSITION);
+        if (contentDisposition != null) {
+            String filename = parseFilenameFromContentDisposition(contentDisposition);
            if (filename != null && !filename.isEmpty()) {
                return filename;
            }
@@ -390,9 +405,23 @@ public class JobExecutorService {
        return "result.pdf";
    }

-    private static String extractResponseContentType(ResponseEntity<?> response) {
-        MediaType mediaType = response.getHeaders().getContentType();
-        return mediaType != null ? mediaType.toString() : MediaType.APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE;
+    private static String parseFilenameFromContentDisposition(String contentDisposition) {
+        for (String part : contentDisposition.split(";")) {
+            String trimmed = part.trim();
+            if (trimmed.regionMatches(true, 0, "filename=", 0, "filename=".length())) {
+                String value = trimmed.substring("filename=".length()).trim();
+                if (value.length() >= 2 && value.startsWith("\"") && value.endsWith("\"")) {
+                    value = value.substring(1, value.length() - 1);
+                }
+                return value;
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    private static String extractResponseContentType(Response response) {
+        MediaType mediaType = response.getMediaType();
+        return mediaType != null ? mediaType.toString() : APPLICATION_PDF_VALUE;
    }

    private long parseSessionTimeout(String timeout) {
@@ -463,8 +492,8 @@ public class JobExecutorService {
    }

    private String getScopedJobKey(String baseJobId) {
-        if (jobOwnershipService != null) {
-            return jobOwnershipService.createScopedJobKey(baseJobId);
+        if (jobOwnershipService.isResolvable()) {
+            return jobOwnershipService.get().createScopedJobKey(baseJobId);
        }
        return baseJobId;
    }
@@ -5,10 +5,14 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.*;
 import java.util.function.Supplier;

-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
-import org.springframework.context.SmartLifecycle;
-import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.inject.ConfigProperty;
+
+import io.quarkus.runtime.StartupEvent;
+
+import jakarta.annotation.PreDestroy;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.event.Observes;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.Response;

 import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.Data;
@@ -22,25 +26,33 @@ import stirling.software.common.util.SpringContextHolder;
 * Manages a queue of jobs with dynamic sizing based on system resources. Used when system resources
 * are limited to prevent overloading.
 */
-@Service
+// TODO: Migration required - the original class implemented Spring's SmartLifecycle, which has no
+// direct Quarkus equivalent. start() is now driven by a StartupEvent observer and stop() by
+// @PreDestroy. The SmartLifecycle phase/auto-startup ordering semantics (getPhase()==10) cannot be
+// expressed in CDI; if precise startup/shutdown ordering relative to other beans is required,
+// revisit using @Priority on the observer or @io.quarkus.runtime.Startup with an ordering strategy.
+@ApplicationScoped
@Slf4j
-public class JobQueue implements SmartLifecycle {
+public class JobQueue {

    private volatile boolean running = false;

    private final ResourceMonitor resourceMonitor;

-    @Value("${stirling.job.queue.base-capacity:10}")
-    private int baseQueueCapacity = 10;
+    // Field-default values mirror the @ConfigProperty defaults so they hold sane values during
+    // construction (the configured values are injected by CDI only after the constructor runs, and
+    // the constructor below sizes the queue from baseQueueCapacity/minQueueCapacity).
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.job.queue.base-capacity", defaultValue = "10")
+    int baseQueueCapacity = 10;

-    @Value("${stirling.job.queue.min-capacity:2}")
-    private int minQueueCapacity = 2;
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.job.queue.min-capacity", defaultValue = "2")
+    int minQueueCapacity = 2;

-    @Value("${stirling.job.queue.check-interval-ms:1000}")
-    private long queueCheckIntervalMs = 1000;
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.job.queue.check-interval-ms", defaultValue = "1000")
+    long queueCheckIntervalMs = 1000;

-    @Value("${stirling.job.queue.max-wait-time-ms:600000}")
-    private long maxWaitTimeMs = 600000; // 10 minutes
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.job.queue.max-wait-time-ms", defaultValue = "600000")
+    long maxWaitTimeMs = 600000; // 10 minutes

    private volatile BlockingQueue<QueuedJob> jobQueue;
    private final Map<String, QueuedJob> jobMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
@@ -67,20 +79,23 @@ public class JobQueue implements SmartLifecycle {
        private final Supplier<Object> work;
        private final long timeoutMs;
        private final Instant queuedAt;
-        private CompletableFuture<ResponseEntity<?>> future;
+        private CompletableFuture<Response> future;
        private volatile boolean cancelled = false;
    }

    public JobQueue(ResourceMonitor resourceMonitor) {
        this.resourceMonitor = resourceMonitor;

-        // Initialize with dynamic capacity
+        // Initialize the queue with a dynamic capacity in the constructor (not in
+        // initializeSchedulers) so it is usable immediately after construction, before the
+        // StartupEvent observer starts the schedulers. Uses the field-default capacities since the
+        // configured values are injected only after construction; updateQueueCapacity() re-sizes
+        // once the configured values are available.
        int capacity =
                resourceMonitor.calculateDynamicQueueCapacity(baseQueueCapacity, minQueueCapacity);
        this.jobQueue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<>(capacity);
    }

-    // Remove @PostConstruct to let SmartLifecycle control startup
    private void initializeSchedulers() {
        log.debug(
                "Starting job queue with base capacity {}, min capacity {}",
@@ -99,7 +114,6 @@ public class JobQueue implements SmartLifecycle {
                TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
    }

-    // Remove @PreDestroy to let SmartLifecycle control shutdown
    private void shutdownSchedulers() {
        log.info("Shutting down job queue");
        shuttingDown = true;
@@ -136,9 +150,12 @@ public class JobQueue implements SmartLifecycle {
                rejectedJobs);
    }

-    // SmartLifecycle methods
+    // Lifecycle methods (migrated from Spring SmartLifecycle)
+
+    void onStart(@Observes StartupEvent event) {
+        start();
+    }

-    @Override
    public void start() {
        log.info("Starting JobQueue lifecycle");
        if (!running) {
@@ -147,29 +164,17 @@ public class JobQueue implements SmartLifecycle {
        }
    }

-    @Override
+    @PreDestroy
    public void stop() {
        log.info("Stopping JobQueue lifecycle");
        shutdownSchedulers();
        running = false;
    }

-    @Override
    public boolean isRunning() {
        return running;
    }

-    @Override
-    public int getPhase() {
-        // Start earlier than most components, but shutdown later
-        return 10;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public boolean isAutoStartup() {
-        return true;
-    }
-
    /**
     * Queues a job for execution when resources permit.
     *
@@ -179,11 +184,11 @@ public class JobQueue implements SmartLifecycle {
     * @param timeoutMs The timeout in milliseconds
     * @return A CompletableFuture that will complete when the job is executed
     */
-    public CompletableFuture<ResponseEntity<?>> queueJob(
+    public CompletableFuture<Response> queueJob(
            String jobId, int resourceWeight, Supplier<Object> work, long timeoutMs) {

        // Create a CompletableFuture to track this job's completion
-        CompletableFuture<ResponseEntity<?>> future = new CompletableFuture<>();
+        CompletableFuture<Response> future = new CompletableFuture<>();

        // Create the queued job
        QueuedJob job =
@@ -378,10 +383,10 @@ public class JobQueue implements SmartLifecycle {
                        Object result = executeWithTimeout(job.work, job.timeoutMs);

                        // Process the result
-                        if (result instanceof ResponseEntity) {
-                            job.future.complete((ResponseEntity<?>) result);
+                        if (result instanceof Response) {
+                            job.future.complete((Response) result);
                        } else {
-                            job.future.complete(ResponseEntity.ok(result));
+                            job.future.complete(Response.ok(result).build());
                        }

                    } catch (Exception e) {
@@ -10,17 +10,19 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;

-import org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.Scheduled;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
-import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartFile;
+import io.quarkus.scheduler.Scheduled;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

+import stirling.software.common.model.MultipartFile;
+
 /**
 * Service for handling mobile scanner file uploads and temporary storage. Files are stored
 * temporarily and automatically cleaned up after 10 minutes or upon retrieval.
 */
-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
@Slf4j
 public class MobileScannerService {

@@ -252,7 +254,7 @@ public class MobileScannerService {
    }

    /** Scheduled cleanup of expired sessions (runs every 5 minutes) */
-    @Scheduled(fixedRate = 5 * 60 * 1000)
+    @Scheduled(every = "5m")
    public void cleanupExpiredSessions() {
        long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
        List<String> expiredSessions = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDRectangle;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.color.PDColor;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.color.PDDeviceRGB;
 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.PDAnnotationText;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ import stirling.software.common.model.api.comments.StickyNoteSpec;
 * </ul>
 */
@Slf4j
-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
 public class PdfAnnotationService {

    /** Yellow sticky-note fill colour (R, G, B in 0..1 range). */
@@ -7,26 +7,32 @@ import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
 import java.util.Calendar;

 import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.inject.Instance;
+import jakarta.inject.Inject;
+import jakarta.inject.Named;

 import stirling.software.common.model.ApplicationProperties;
 import stirling.software.common.model.PdfMetadata;

-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
 public class PdfMetadataService {

    private final ApplicationProperties applicationProperties;
    private final String stirlingPDFLabel;
-    private final UserServiceInterface userService;
+    // MIGRATION: Spring's @Autowired(required=false) optional bean -> CDI Instance<>
+    // (UserServiceInterface
+    // is only present in security-enabled flavors). Resolve via isResolvable()/get().
+    private final Instance<UserServiceInterface> userService;
    private final boolean runningProOrHigher;

+    @Inject
    public PdfMetadataService(
            ApplicationProperties applicationProperties,
-            @Qualifier("StirlingPDFLabel") String stirlingPDFLabel,
-            @Qualifier("runningProOrHigher") boolean runningProOrHigher,
-            @Autowired(required = false) UserServiceInterface userService) {
+            @Named("StirlingPDFLabel") String stirlingPDFLabel,
+            @Named("runningProOrHigher") boolean runningProOrHigher,
+            Instance<UserServiceInterface> userService) {
        this.applicationProperties = applicationProperties;
        this.stirlingPDFLabel = stirlingPDFLabel;
        this.userService = userService;
@@ -168,8 +174,8 @@ public class PdfMetadataService {
                            .getCustomMetadata()
                            .getAuthor();

-            if (userService != null) {
-                String username = userService.getCurrentUsername();
+            if (userService.isResolvable()) {
+                String username = userService.get().getCurrentUsername();
                if (username != null) {
                    author = author.replace("username", username);
                }
@@ -15,39 +15,44 @@ import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.TimeZone;

 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
-import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.Config;

 import com.posthog.java.PostHog;

+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
+import jakarta.enterprise.inject.Instance;
+import jakarta.inject.Inject;
+import jakarta.inject.Named;
+
 import stirling.software.common.model.ApplicationProperties;

-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
 public class PostHogService {
    private final PostHog postHog;
    private final String uniqueId;
    private final String appVersion;
    private final ApplicationProperties applicationProperties;
-    private final UserServiceInterface userService;
-    private final Environment env;
+    // MIGRATION: optional bean (@Autowired(required=false)) -> CDI Instance<>.
+    private final Instance<UserServiceInterface> userService;
+    // MIGRATION: Spring Environment -> MicroProfile Config.
+    private final Config config;
    private boolean configDirMounted;

+    @Inject
    public PostHogService(
            PostHog postHog,
-            @Qualifier("UUID") String uuid,
-            @Qualifier("configDirMounted") boolean configDirMounted,
-            @Qualifier("appVersion") String appVersion,
+            @Named("UUID") String uuid,
+            @Named("configDirMounted") boolean configDirMounted,
+            @Named("appVersion") String appVersion,
            ApplicationProperties applicationProperties,
-            @Autowired(required = false) UserServiceInterface userService,
-            Environment env) {
+            Instance<UserServiceInterface> userService,
+            Config config) {
        this.postHog = postHog;
        this.uniqueId = uuid;
        this.appVersion = appVersion;
        this.applicationProperties = applicationProperties;
        this.userService = userService;
-        this.env = env;
+        this.config = config;
        this.configDirMounted = configDirMounted;
        captureSystemInfo();
    }
@@ -79,7 +84,9 @@ public class PostHogService {
            // Application version
            metrics.put("app_version", appVersion);
            String deploymentType = "JAR"; // default
-            if ("true".equalsIgnoreCase(env.getProperty("BROWSER_OPEN"))) {
+            if ("true"
+                    .equalsIgnoreCase(
+                            config.getOptionalValue("BROWSER_OPEN", String.class).orElse(null))) {
                deploymentType = "EXE";
            } else if (isRunningInDocker()) {
                deploymentType = "DOCKER";
@@ -148,8 +155,8 @@ public class PostHogService {
            }
            metrics.put("application_properties", captureApplicationProperties());

-            if (userService != null) {
-                metrics.put("total_users_created", userService.getTotalUsersCount());
+            if (userService.isResolvable()) {
+                metrics.put("total_users_created", userService.get().getTotalUsersCount());
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;

-import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.inject.ConfigProperty;

 import jakarta.annotation.PostConstruct;
 import jakarta.annotation.PreDestroy;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.Getter;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
@@ -24,24 +24,24 @@ import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
 * Monitors system resources (CPU, memory) to inform job scheduling decisions. Provides information
 * about available resources to prevent overloading the system.
 */
-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
@Slf4j
 public class ResourceMonitor {

-    @Value("${stirling.resource.memory.critical-threshold:0.9}")
-    private double memoryCriticalThreshold = 0.9; // 90% usage is critical
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.resource.memory.critical-threshold", defaultValue = "0.9")
+    double memoryCriticalThreshold; // 90% usage is critical

-    @Value("${stirling.resource.memory.high-threshold:0.75}")
-    private double memoryHighThreshold = 0.75; // 75% usage is high
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.resource.memory.high-threshold", defaultValue = "0.75")
+    double memoryHighThreshold; // 75% usage is high

-    @Value("${stirling.resource.cpu.critical-threshold:0.9}")
-    private double cpuCriticalThreshold = 0.9; // 90% usage is critical
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.resource.cpu.critical-threshold", defaultValue = "0.9")
+    double cpuCriticalThreshold; // 90% usage is critical

-    @Value("${stirling.resource.cpu.high-threshold:0.75}")
-    private double cpuHighThreshold = 0.75; // 75% usage is high
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.resource.cpu.high-threshold", defaultValue = "0.75")
+    double cpuHighThreshold; // 75% usage is high

-    @Value("${stirling.resource.monitor.interval-ms:60000}")
-    private long monitorIntervalMs = 60000; // 60 seconds
+    @ConfigProperty(name = "stirling.resource.monitor.interval-ms", defaultValue = "60000")
+    long monitorIntervalMs; // 60 seconds

    private final ScheduledExecutorService scheduler =
            Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor(
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import java.net.UnknownHostException;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;

-import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
+import jakarta.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
 import stirling.software.common.model.ApplicationProperties;
 import stirling.software.common.util.RegexPatternUtils;

-@Service
+@ApplicationScoped
@RequiredArgsConstructor
@Slf4j
 public class SsrfProtectionService {
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More