Felix Meschberger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There is currently a discussion going on on the Felix Users list about
> providing a default web application launcher [1] proposed by Justin
> Edelson. As a base model for this discussion he took the Sling web app
> launcher with some reductions and some missing enhancements (namely war
> support and SNAPSHOT bundle bootstrap installation support).
> 
> Over the course of the discussion Justin agreed to provide patches to
> Sling launchpad to support his feature wishes (I think they are very
> worth-while additions):
> 
>    * Migrate the current use of PAX Web and Equinox Servlet bridge
>      to using the new Felix HTTP Service implementation
>           -- this will bring generic servlet filter support outside
>              of Sling
>           -- in addition Servlet API listener support might also be
>              added
> 
>    * Add war support -- something which is really usefull for supporting
>      legacy application transitionally.
> 
>    * Add support for upgrading bundle in SNAPSHOT versions (something
>      Bertrand Delacretaz recently added to JCR Install, too).
> 
> My question to discuss right now is: What is the general opinion of the
> Sling community to eventually hand the launchpad/base module as a
> generic loader for standalone and web application environments over to
> the Apache Felix project ?
> 
I think it makes totally sense to move the launcher - it's cool stuff which
can be used for any OSGi based product - so it's not tied to Sling and
Felix seems to be a better place. And we reduce the code we have to
maintain :)

So +1 for moving

Carsten
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Carsten Ziegeler
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