How about supporting also generic bootstrappers like Pax Runner that support all major frameworks and its versions ? Then also you don't have to bundle the framework into the distribution but paxrunner which is capable of downloading the correct artifacts from different resources.
+1 for a Karaf kind of project ! On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Karl Pauls <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 13:29, Adrian Trenaman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> +1 for the name, and +1 for bringing together the felix and SMX kernels > >> communities. > >> > >> One question though: will Karaf be intimately tied to the Felix OSGi > >> implementation? I think that Karaf would be stronger if we can show that > it > >> works over any OSGi compliant core. Thoughts, anyone? > > > > I agree with this statement. Some work is needed to be able to > > achieve that, as it's a bit tied to felix right now, but I don't see > > any technical issues. > > Most of Felix sub projects are independant of the felix runtime, and > > even if I don't necesseraly really see Karaf shipping equinox by > > default, I do envision an easy way to switch. Or maybe provide two > > distributions by default, why not ? > > If we use the new embedding api then it is just a matter of replacing > the felix.jar with the equinox.jar on the classpath. Some slides on > this topic: > > > https://www.gpublication.com/eclipse/#requestedContent=contentID://EclipseConferences/EC2009/534 > > regards, > > Karl > > >> /Ade > >> > >> On 31 Mar 2009, at 12:42, James Strachan wrote: > >> > >>> 2009/3/30 Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]>: > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 19:49, Jamie G. <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> I agree, this sounds like a win-win for all involved (as per James / > >>>>> Guillaume's post). > >>>>> > >>>>> As a name submission I'd like Carafe (pronounced "karaf"). A carafe > is > >>>>> a small container used for serving wine and other drinks > >>>>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carafe). In similarity to the name the > >>>>> Kernel allows applications to be more easily handled, and improves > >>>>> their characteristics (much like a bottle of wine left to breath in a > >>>>> decanter) :) > >>>> > >>>> What about Karaf to lower the google hit counts and still preserve the > >>>> nice semantic ... > >>>> ... and eventually fill the "K" hole of the Apache TLP names list (in > >>>> case it ever becomes a TLP later). > >>> > >>> And K == Kernel etc :) > >>> > >>> +1 am liking it. > >>> > >>> Easy to remember, spell and google search. Unless anyone can think of > >>> a better idea. (My ideas were all terrible :) > >>> > >>> -- > >>> James > >>> ------- > >>> http://macstrac.blogspot.com/ > >>> > >>> Open Source Integration > >>> http://fusesource.com/ > >> > >> --- > >> Adrian Trenaman, Consultant Fellow, PS - Opensource Center of Competence > >> Progress Software Corp > >> Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, Ireland > >> --- > >> +353-1-637-2659 (Office) > >> +353-1-637-2882 (Fax) > >> +353-86-6051026 (Mobile) > >> adrian.trenaman (Skype) > >> ---- > >> Blog: http://trenaman.blogspot.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Guillaume Nodet > > ------------------------ > > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------ > > Open Source SOA > > http://fusesource.com > > > > > > -- > Karl Pauls > [email protected] > -- Toni Menzel Software Developer Professional Profile: http://www.osgify.com [email protected] http://www.ops4j.org - New Energy for OSS Communities - Open Participation Software.
