On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:43 AM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > ...ant >
The other thing that Karaf brings, IIRC, is a feature based deployment paradigm;-) A while back I made some progress with creating OBR descriptions for the distribution.. Haven't touched it for a while though but need to get back to it at some point. Simon -- Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com
