Hi John,
On Oct 29, 2005, at 11:54 PM, John Sisson wrote:
Sounds like a great idea.
OpenEJB, TranQL, ActiveMQ would be great to have as part of the
community.
I noticed that Xbean was suggested. How is Xbean currently related
to Geronimo? Is this the Spring based gbean.org project with a new
name (www.gbean.org now takes me to the Codehaus main page)? If
so, what are the pros and cons to moving to this?
xbean is what activemq 4.x and servicemix 2.x are using for wiring up
it's components. I think the the openejb folks are also jumping on
and starting to use it too. Seems like Dan from xfire, has started
to also drive requirements into so I guess xfire may start using it
soon too.
Does OSGi compete with/overlap Xbean functionality? If so is it
premature to consider Xbean before we have considered OSGi?
I've got a feeling it's complimentary. ActiveMQ and servicemix only
uses xbean for configuration wiring. The one thing I'm keeping an
eye on OSGi is for it's classpath/native library management (would
come in handy for servicemix).
Regards,
Hiram
I did a search for xbean on the Geronimo dev mailing list and
haven't found anything, except for references to XMLBeans.
XMLBeans jars are named xbean-2.x.x AFAIK.
Thanks,
John
Dain Sundstrom wrote:
Why not consolidate the entire Geronimo community, or as much as
possible, into the Geronimo project itself?
I bounced this idea off a few people and the feedback I got was
very positive. This idea keeps popping up and before it gets to
far along I want to bring it to the dev list.
One thing you should really think about is this requires a big
commitment from the Geronimo community. There are a lot of
projects, code and committers that we will need to integrate into
our community. Most of the projects will have to go through
incubation, which as you all know is not easy. On the positive
side, we already work closely with these projects, and are very
familiar with the communities and code.
As you can tell, I'm very excited about this. What do you
think? Who would want to come?
-dain
