Hi Stefano, Thanks for all the elaboration.
Hopefully we'll have a common approach to both James and ApacheDS in the end so that we can share documentation and maintenance efforts across both servers. Incidentally I have a couple of questions for you regarding James installers, but let me start a new thread for that. I'll post one with "[COLLABORATION] James" in the subject Cheers, - Ole --- Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ole Ersoy ha scritto: > > Hey Guys, > > > > It looks like James (Apache Mail Server) has done > a > > lot of research on XBean and OSGi already. > > Hi Ole, I'm a James PMC member, > > Well, we did not really much research. One fine day > Alan Cabrera > suggested us to move to maven2+xbean: someone liked > the idea, someone > didn't. > > At that time XBean was at an early stage and spring > 2 was not out yet (I > say this because I'm under the impression that XBean > changed enough with > the introduction of spring 2, but I may be wrong). > > So we never really evaluated XBean seriously. The > same apply to OSGi. > The only real/concrete step we did has been some > experimentation with > Spring2. > > > It sounds like they are favoring OSGi over XBean > due > > in part to it being standardized through JCP. It > also > > sounds like there is an XBean facade for OSGi. > > Maybe this is "old news": now I think the key is > that XBean runs on > spring2 and there is a promising spring-osgi > support. > > It is indeed true that many JAMES PMC committers > expressed favourable > opinions against OSGi (nothing more than this). > > > Here's a link to the James thread, starting where > the > > discussion gets goooood. > > > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/james-server-dev/200604.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Incidentally - Since they seems to be doing a lot > of > > work around this already, I think it would make > sense > > to combine our efforts with respect to Alex's list > > below. > > I just read this article and I liked it very much: > http://www.eclipsezone.com/articles/extensions-vs-services/ > > This increased my believing that spring-osgi is > probably the way to go. > > I would like to understand what XBean provides on > top of this or what > the are really doing but I found it difficult to > understand what is the > XBean roadmap from their website/jira. > > Unfortunately we didn't do any work. Btw I'm really > interested in this > and in my TODO list I have "Understand > XBean<->SpringOSGi relationship". > > Stefano > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php
