On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Bill Dudney wrote:
I tend to lean towards OSGi because its standard and will afford us
the opportunity to replace the impl with a different impl if
needed. Also we can use plugins that are not intended for our stuff
in our stuff if we have OSGi. I'm sure its not as easy as grabbing
the jar but it would be cool to be able to integrate some of the
eclipse plugins (GEF, GEM etc).
Interoperability is certainly an important consideration. In the past
I found it the hard way :-)
So I have a few questions as I am fully ignorant of OSGI:
1. Is Eclipse OSGi-compatible now, or is this just a future goal? For
instance does it mean that if we write an OSGi Modeler plugin, can we
deploy it in Eclipse, even if it is a separate Swing frame?
2. What are the core differences between OSGI and Platonos (and
corollary to that - is it possible to make Platonos a tight subset of
OSGi, or are they totally incompatible).
Pardon if those look like stupid questions to a more informed person.
I am trying to see if we can get the best of both worlds - a small
plugin runtime and a possibility of extension.
Andrus
