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]
