We have an initiative at Apache Felix, called Felix Commons, to do just
a thing. We announced this quite a while ago, but it is finally starting
to take shape. Here are some links of interest:
http://cwiki.apache.org/FELIX/apache-felix-commons.html
And:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&pid=12310100&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&component=12311474
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-> richard
Piero Campanelli wrote:
> Hi,
> I am reflecting to the fact that it would be nice if a set of
> opensource projects (starting from most used/trendy) would be packaged
> as osgi bundles and keeped them in a repository. ( bundles.osgi.org
> <http://bundles.osgi.org> for example or any other). I see interesting
> the Eclipse Orbit initiative which is however devoted only to
> "eclipse-related" libraries.
>
> Clearly the problem of maintaining this repository would be high but
> the benefits for osgi adoption could be interesting (specially when
> people see that with osgi they are able to manage lot of lines code
> more easily than traditional approach).
>
> What do you think about that?
>
> PS
> As exercise I am starting porting existing opensource libraries as
> OSGi bundles. I think there are two level of adoption:
> a) package "components" as osgi bundles and keep tracks of
> dependencies and versions
> b) adopt a service oriented approach (using osgi registry or
> declarative service)
>
> a) can be done easily and I think can also be maintained externally
> from the main trunk of the project (if project is well modularized).
> b) should be adopted from project team :)
>
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