Technically, (using your name), both Karaf OSGi and Karaf Cloud are OSGi
internally.

Karaf Cloud looks a bit "weird" to me because it isn't cloud-specific.

Mixing your proposal and Romain's proposal, what about:

- Karaf -> Karaf PAX
- Karaf Simple -> Karaf
- Karaf Integration -> Karaf Orchestration
- Karaf Minimal -> delete

Thoughts?

Regards
JB

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 1:47 PM Francois Papon <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> May be having :
>
> - Karaf > Karaf OSGi
>
> - Karaf Simple > Karaf Cloud
>
> - Karaf Integration > Karaf Orchestration
>
> I think tagging the standard distribution as OSGi will help to abstract
> the OSGi part on the others distribution.
>
> regards,
>
> François
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
>
> Le 06/05/2026 à 11:12, Jean-Baptiste Onofré a écrit :
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Currently, we provide 3 Karaf distributions:
> > - Karaf
> > - Karaf Minimal
> > - Karaf Integration
> >
> > 1. Karaf
> > This is our standard distribution, packaging the full feature
> > resolver/service (supporting cap/req), sshd, deployers, diagnostic, kar,
> > wrapper, etc.
> > That's the de facto most used distribution.
> >
> > 2. Karaf Minimal
> > This is a very light distribution, packaging the full feature
> > resolver/service, config, local shell console, ... Hot deployment, etc
> are
> > not packaged in this distribution by default.
> >
> > 3. Karaf Integration
> > This is based on the Karaf distribution, adding Apache Camel, ActiveMQ
> > (similar to what was Apache ServiceMix).
> >
> > Now, with the new feature service (simple resolver), and the Karaf
> services
> > (Karaf URL, Karaf Web, etc), I propose creating a new distribution
> > packaging the simple feature service (instead of the full one, and
> > providing Karaf services instead of Pax services.
> >
> > I have two questions for you:
> > 1. Should we keep the Karaf Minimal distribution? I'm not sure this
> > distribution is actually heavily used.
> > 2. Should we rename Karaf as Karaf "Full" and use Karaf for the new
> > distribution (the one with the simple feature service and Karaf
> services)?
> > Or should we keep the Karaf distribution as it is today and introduce a
> new
> > distribution "Karaf Simple"?
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Regards
> > JB
> >
>

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