Mark Selenium module as deprecated

external/selenium/README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Selenium Protocol for Apache StormCrawler
 
+> **⚠️ Deprecated:** The Selenium module is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release of StormCrawler.
+
 This project provides a **[Selenium](https://www.selenium.dev/)-based protocol implementation** for Apache StormCrawler.
 
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external/selenium/pom.xml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ under the License.
 
     <name>stormcrawler-selenium</name>
     <url>https://github.com/apache/stormcrawler/tree/master/external/selenium</url>
-    <description>Selenium-based Protocol for StormCrawler</description>
+    <description>Selenium-based Protocol for StormCrawler (deprecated - will be removed in the next major release)</description>
 
     <properties>
         <selenium.version>4.46.0</selenium.version>

external/selenium/src/main/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/protocol/selenium/NavigationFilter.java

@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
 
+/**
+ * @deprecated the Selenium module is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release of
+ *     StormCrawler.
+ */
+@Deprecated
 public abstract class NavigationFilter extends AbstractConfigurable {
     /** The end result comes from the first filter to return non-null * */
     public abstract @Nullable ProtocolResponse filter(

external/selenium/src/main/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/protocol/selenium/NavigationFilters.java

@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@
  *
  * @see org.apache.stormcrawler.util.Configurable#createConfiguredInstance(Class, Class, Map,
  *     JsonNode) for more information.
+ * @deprecated the Selenium module is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release of
+ *     StormCrawler.
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class NavigationFilters extends NavigationFilter {
 
     public static final NavigationFilters emptyNavigationFilters = new NavigationFilters();

external/selenium/src/main/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/protocol/selenium/RemoteDriverProtocol.java

@@ -33,7 +33,11 @@
 /**
  * Delegates the requests to one or more remote selenium servers. The processes must be started /
  * stopped separately. The URLs to connect to are specified with the config 'selenium.addresses'.
+ *
+ * @deprecated the Selenium module is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release of
+ *     StormCrawler.
  */
+@Deprecated
 public class RemoteDriverProtocol extends SeleniumProtocol {
 
     private void substituteUserAgent(Map<String, Object> keyvals, final String userAgentString) {

external/selenium/src/main/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/protocol/selenium/SeleniumProtocol.java

@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@
 import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+/**
+ * @deprecated the Selenium module is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release of
+ *     StormCrawler.
+ */
+@Deprecated
 public abstract class SeleniumProtocol extends AbstractHttpProtocol {
 
     protected static final org.slf4j.Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SeleniumProtocol.class);