On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 14:58, Kevan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 23, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Guillaume Nodet wrote: > >> Some time ago, a few Geronimo committers have started an >> implementation of the OSGi Blueprint Services spec, which is basically >> an OSGi standardized version of Spring-DM (the next version of >> Spring-DM being the RI of this spec). >> The code was developed at Geronimo mostly because the people that were >> interested in doing so were all Geronimo committers, so it was way >> easier to set that up inside Geronimo. However, the piece of code >> does not really fit well in Geronimo, as it has nothing to do with >> JEE. > > If Geronimo were using Blueprint, then Blueprint could fit just fine in > Geronimo. By your argument, Geronimo should not implement any component that > isn't part of an EE spec -- which I think we all agree is not true...
Right, that's not really what I implied. > That said, it looks like Aries would also be a good home for Blueprint. If > you and Jarek would prefer to work there (you two seem to have done most of > the work), then you have my support. Since Geronimo will be consuming > Blueprint, I expect that we'll have receptive ears as Geronimo identifies > problems/requirements in the Blueprint implementation... For sure. And I'm also quite sure Aries would welcome any Geronimo committer, and some of them are already part of Aries. > If Aries Incubation doesn't work out, for some reason, we can always pull > Blueprint back in (or consume from another project, if moved elsewhere...). Right. > --kevan > > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com
