Hi Bartosz,

No I didn't have time to look at ARIES-353 yet. Will do so soon :)

Cheers,

David

On 14 July 2010 09:17, Bartosz Kowalewski <[email protected]> wrote:
> David,
>
> Have you had chance to take a look at the changes mentioned in ARIES-353?
>
> I can rename the main SPI-Fly project to something else than
> spi-fly-core/org.apache.aries.spifly.core and send updated pom.xml
> files if you like :).
>
> Thanks,
>  Bartek
>
> 2010/7/8 Bartosz Kowalewski <[email protected]>:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I've just created ARIES-353. It covers initial changes to be applied
>> to to the SPI-Fly project structure. These changes transform SPI-Fly
>> into a multi-module project. Once these changes are in SVN, I'll start
>> contributing itests and other improvements.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>  Bartek
>>
>> 2010/6/29 David Bosschaert <[email protected]>:
>>> Hi Bartek,
>>>
>>> On 25 June 2010 22:32, Bartosz Kowalewski <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi David,
>>>>
>>>> I managed to make Eclipse Aspects/Weaving work inside a Pax Exam test.
>>>> I can contribute this simple project with integration tests (of course
>>>> after applying some clean-up) if you find it useful. I think that
>>>> SPI-Fly requires a change in project structure anyway - it needs a
>>>> parent project and a second subproject - spifly-itests.
>>>
>>> That would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>>> Some more comments on the SPI-Fly + AOP topic:
>>>> 1. My understanding is that there's no single uniform mechanism for
>>>> supporting AspectJ load-time weaving that would work in all OSGi
>>>> containers. Due to the specifics of the OSGi world, container-specific
>>>> mechanism are required. Am I right? For Equinox it's Equinox
>>>> Aspects/Weaving and there's no such mechanism for Felix. This seems to
>>>> be a really important disadvantage of using LTW in SPI-Fly.
>>>
>>> Yes - there is currently no general mechanism to support load-time
>>> weaving in OSGi but this is something being worked on in the OSGi
>>> Alliance so I expect that it will be possible in a standardized way in
>>> the future.
>>>
>>>> 2. The problem with adding aspects to bundles is still unresolved. I'm
>>>> not sure if there's a clean solution for adding aspects to consumer
>>>> bundles (or bundles that provide the API). Of course some ugly
>>>> solutions can be applied (like my original headache causing fragment
>>>> based one), but these are more intrusive that we might wish.
>>>
>>> Yes, this is still an open question. Maybe something for the AspectJ
>>> mailing list. I will post there.
>>>
>>>> 3. I started implementing support for SPI-Consumer and SPI-Provider
>>>> headers that contain some data helpful whne running the aspect, i.e.
>>>> api name and provider name/version for the Provider header, and some
>>>> mechanism to define consumer constraints/hints in the SPI-Consumer
>>>> header that would help the aspect that will tweak the thread context
>>>> classloader to make decisions about providers. These mechanisms are
>>>> similar to the ones that you described in one of your e-mails.
>>>> However, I feel that we should first solve #1 and #2 above and only
>>>> then it makes sense to continue with the implementation.
>>>
>>> cool stuff - looking forward to your contributions :)
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>
>

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