I also think a small karaf with the easy possibility to create custom
distros is the way to go.
A central list of pointers to repository files makes sense. But we have
to do this a bit different than the current feature files. Currently a
url to a feature file always points to a certain version of that file.
For a central list this does not make sense.
So I think we rather need a list of the base urls without version and
then an easy way for users to install a feature file with a certain
version. So for example to install the feature url for camel the user
should be able to write something like:
features:addurl camel 2.7.0
Do we already have support for this or something similar? Or do we have
an issue for it? If not I can create one.
Christian
Am 04.05.2011 13:21, schrieb Guillaume Nodet:
I think we need a way to enable user to install other features easily
without having to release karaf for that.
It just does not scale if we have to release Karaf because Camel as
released a new version for example.
We've already discussed that some time ago and I think we need to find
a good technical solution for that.
Maybe having a xml feature descriptor referenced at
http://karaf.apache.org/features/repository.xml which would point to
various other repositories (such as camel, cxf, servicemix, web,
aries, etc...) is more scalable as we would not have to release a new
karaf container each time one of those things change. People may want
Apache Direction, OpenEJB, ActiveMQ, etc..., we can't host all those
things in Karaf trunk as this would create unnecessary ties between
the projects and Karaf.
Once we have that, we should keep Karaf main distribution clean and
lean and provide all the optional bits using this way. Combined with
an easy way to create custom distribution, I do think that's the way
to go.
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 13:12, Ioannis Canellos<[email protected]> wrote:
I think that's what we are working on already as part of 3.0, so not
sure if I really understand what you mean here.
I see clustering to be part of the core karaf distribution. By that I mean
that the clustering solution should be provided as a feature inside the
standard feature repository.
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