I'm +1 for the new async component, but agree that we should have some mechanism to differentiate experimental bundles and release bundles.
Perhaps an "EXPERIMENTAL" flag on the pom version? Regards, Tim > Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:52:21 +0000 > Subject: Re: Async communications experimental component > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > > Hi, > > Given that we are trying to do a release at the moment this makes me > wonder how we should differentiate things which are experimental and > wouldn't be part of the release, and things which are to be part of > the release. > > Thoughts? > Alasdair > > On 22 February 2010 11:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > In the OSGi Alliance we're currently working on defining 'Asynchronous > > Distributed OSGi' in various forms and what that might look like. > > Currently the work is divided up into three areas: > > * Bringing JMS to OSGi > > * Message Driven Components > > * Asynchronous Services > > We're really at the requirements gathering stage right now... > > > > In the mean time I'm looking for a place where we can do some > > experimentation and collaboration in the area in order to get a better > > understanding of these problems and potential solutions. I would love > > to start a component in Aries for this purpose. > > The three areas identified above are more or less orthogonal, but I > > can see many cases where they are combined, so at least initially I > > think a single experimentation area for them would be good. > > Then, when the dust settles a bit we might extract a number of > > independent components... Anyway, that's at least how I think we could > > do it, but I would also have no big issues with three separate > > experimentation areas (or maybe three submodules of an async top-level > > module would be a middle ground). > > > > Anyway, if people think this is a good idea I can start putting some > > of the structure in the build system over the coming few days... > > > > Best regards, > > > > David > > > > > > -- > Alasdair Nottingham > [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/
