On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm having 2 problems with Plexus: > > 1) I tried to upgrade and it's not working. They've dropped the > ability to dynamically register a new component instance for an > existing role. Jason Van Zyl said he's ok to fix it but he's busy on > other stuff and it's been now 2 weeks since he said he'll fix it. > Generally speaking there are not many people working on Plexus core so > it's not moving much. > > 2) I tried using events (it was there in alpha-31 but seem to have > disappeared in recent versions - I may be wrong. However since there's > zero documentation I had to try to find it in the code and couldn't > find it) and couldn't. Even in alpha-31 it doesn't work (it works only > for components located in components.xml but since we're dynamically > registering components it doesn't work for us. > > Thus I'm more and more tempted to drop support for Plexus and instead > use our Embedded component manager for now and start a xwiki-osgi > module that would implement our SPI for OSGi. I've read OSGi > documentation and it looks not too difficult to do. > I didn't follow the embedded component manager... apparently it manages component descriptions with annotations? I began working with OSGI (not much yet because I'm too busy on other stuff)... what do you mean by "implementing our SPI for OSGI"? > > I have all the code done for sending Component Manager events but it > won't work with Plexus so I'm proposing to use our Embedded CM for > now. In the meantime I'll try to talk to Jason to see what can be done > on the plexus side. > > WDYT? > > Note that our Embedded CM hasn't been tested for multithreading so > we'll need to verify it works in the 2.0 dev cycle and fix any > threading issue. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
