On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Guillaume Nodet wrote:
Aries applications model is quite similar to the subsytem model being
discussed in the OSGi EEG.
I'd like to think that subsytems are more generic than applications,
or said another way, that applications
are specialization of subsystems. Subsystems allow reference to other
subsystems, scoping, etc...
I'd like to see how we can make both fits together. I guess the first
question to solve it whether we want
to keep applications the way they are, without advanced features
provided by subsystems such as
sharing / scoping, dependencies on other subsytems, etc...
Once we've answered that, we can think about the way we want to
support both.
Thoughts ?
My point of view.... perhaps shared by no one else.... is that an
application would be deployed or installed into a particular
subsystem, but that several apps and plain bundles can all be
installed into a single subsystem. I'm thinking of an application as
a way to deploy a set of bundles at once, where the "maven-like"
dependencies aren't specified, and where the framework has a way to
resolve the osgi dependencies into maven-like dependencies.
I don't think this idea is expressed in the current code in any way.
thanks
david jencks
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