I had a play around with Karaf (http://karaf.apache.org) over the weekend and was wondering if we should look at having a Tuscany runtime based on it. Karaf is an OSGi based container that bundles up a set of useful things to create a server and its used by things like Geronimo and ServiceMix, and it has things like Aries running in it already. Its management console looks really good and can be accessed in a variety of ways including from a browser. We already have a lot of Tuscany code and support for OSGi but we don't show actually using that for much useful so having a Karaf based runtime would help do that and could be quite compelling i think. It would help validate and show hwo to use Tuscany in other OSGi based environments too which would be good. I'm not sure how much time i'd have to do this by myself though so wondered if anyone else would be interested in this and helping out?
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