I am also interested in questions that Quintin raised. Hope the answer could at least give us a big picture about what OSGI+Geronimo will be.
Jeff C On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Quintin Beukes <quin...@skywalk.co.za>wrote: > What exactly will be the affect OSGi will have on Geronimo? > > Will it simply replace the plugin architecture? > > And how will it, if at all, affect gbeans? > > Quintin Beukes > > > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 7:02 PM, David Jencks <david_jen...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > > On Oct 17, 2009, at 5:04 AM, Quintin Beukes wrote: > > > >> Is it tricky to build? I would like to take a look at what you guys > >> have achieved so far :> > > > > It's beyond tricky, only the framework builds so far. For that, you need > to > > build some servicemix bundles locally. I'll try to publish the > servicemix > > bundles in the next few days. There have been a few posts recently about > > how to get the framework to build, I would consult them for additional > > hints. > > > > I'm trying to get plugins/j2ee to build: at that point it should be > possible > > for lots of people to work more or less independently in parallel on > fixing > > the other plugins. > > > > thanks > > david jencks > > > >> > >> Quintin Beukes > >> > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:41 PM, David Jencks <david_jen...@yahoo.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Thanks Donald, > >>> > >>> I opened GERONIMO-4916 to track this, removed the old framework, and > >>> moved > >>> over the osgi framework from sandbox. > >>> > >>> Now we just have to get it all to work :-) > >>> > >>> thanks > >>> david jencks > >>> > >>> On Oct 16, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Donald Woods wrote: > >>> > >>>> Branch of current pre-OSGi trunk has been created at - > >>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/branches/3.0_old/ > >>>> > >>>> Let the OSGi merge begin.... > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -Donald > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> David Jencks wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> I have the sandbox osgi framework working enough to start the > geronimo > >>>>> plugins, so I'm planning to move this work into trunk so we can all > >>>>> pitch in > >>>>> more easily on getting the rest of geronimo running on osgi. > >>>>> There's one legal issue to take care of first, since I copied in some > >>>>> plexus code that is not clearly available under asl2. The code > appears > >>>>> to > >>>>> have been derived from ant, so I'm going to see if we can get the > same > >>>>> results by importing or using ant code. > >>>>> I think that Donald is planning to make a branch off of trunk for a > >>>>> convenient place to try out jpa2 stuff at least until we have the > >>>>> equivalent > >>>>> working under osgi. > >>>>> If you have any concerns about this please speak up! > >>>>> thanks > >>>>> david jencks > >>> > >>> > > > > >
