Le 20 mai 05, à 15:38, Daniel Fagerstrom a écrit :
Sylvain proposed [1] to base blocks on the OSGi service platform [2][3]. After having studied it in more detail I'm completely convinced that it is the way to go...
After reading some of the knopflerfish and osgi.org material I agree that an OSGI kernel looks really good for our purposes. Standing on the shoulders of *other* giants might be a good idea for these relatively complex things, provided the external tools are backed by a solid (and ASF-compatible) community.
I haven't looked much at http://oscar.objectweb.org/ yet, but from a community point of view it might be a good idea to build more bridges to the ObjectWeb community - they seem to have some great stuff there.
...Following the above architecture, or some better ;) we can start experimenting with classloader isolation, deplyment from remote repositories and so on without introducing any back incompabilities or having to do any major rewritings...
To me this is a killer advantage of your proposal.Big +1, or rather +0 as I won't have much cycles to contribute. But following the idea at least until it can be compared (also in performance) with the current code sounds really good.
-Bertrand
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