On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Franklin, Matthew B. <[email protected]>wrote:
> >-----Original Message----- > >From: Chris Geer [mailto:[email protected]] > >Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:00 AM > >To: dev > >Subject: [DISCUSS] Rave Architecture > > > >I wanted to start a conversation regarding the long term architecture of > >Rave. I'm primarily interested in how Rave will ultimately be able to be > >deployed. > > A while back Ate posted ~25 architectural topics[1] to start generating > discussion around. As we go to build out a roadmap, we will need to make > sure we expand on each of these. > > > > >Currently, as you know, Rave is built and deployed as a series of three > web > >apps, ROOT (mostly Shindig), portal (main rave features) and wookie (I'm > >not counting demogadgets). This model has it's advantages since all you > >have to do upgrade is replace a war file since it's all self contained. > >However, this model also has some drawbacks. > > > >In a perfect world it would be great if Rave could support multiple > >deployment models. My personal preference would be to see Rave be able to > >be deployed modularly in an OSGi container (Rave services advertised as > >OSGi services, etc). This would give a lot of freedom for interacting with > >Rave programmatically, for scaling, for incremental upgrades and > supporting > >plug-n-play services (JPA vs JCR for example). > >In looking at the system it wouldn't be horribly difficult to convert it > to > >deploy modularly into an OSGI container but I also realize there are going > >to be people who want a standard WAR distribution. I didn't have any > >brilliant ideas of how to structure things to support both as different > >build options but I wanted to raise the idea anyway and see if others had > >any thoughts. Do others see a need to have a more modular deployment > >model > >in their use of Rave? Have there been other discussions around this > already? > > Hadrian was discussing OSGI enabling Rave at some point. I would > recommend putting a detailed proposal in the architecture topics of the > wiki and start getting some discussion around the specifics of how this > would be accomplished. I am sure others will help refine it from there... > Before spending a lot of time putting together a detailed proposal I guess I was looking to gather some thoughts on what options people would like to support. That will greatly impact the detailed proposal. > > > > >Thanks, > >Chris > > [1] : http://wiki.apache.org/rave/ArchitectureTopics >
