Thanks for the update. Is the purpose of the plugin system to make it
easier for administrators to bring plugins into their deployment at
run-time, or more about minimising conflicts between plugin versions?
And are you pulling plugins from a repository (eg. browse and select
compatible versions much like, say, IntelliJ)?
Interesting. In my use-case the plugins (bundles) would contain S2
actions/packages and Entities.
Don Brown wrote:
The latest status is I built a plugin system around OSGi for Atlassian
and it is in the process of being rolled out. Basically, it utilizes
a hybrid approach where the main webapp is a normal webapp, but
plugins can be installed on it dynamically via OSGi. I have the OK to
open source it, but I want to have something in mind to use it with
first. Archiva, the Maven proxy, is looking to add a plugin system,
and since James, a fellow Atlassian, is a committer, I might start
there. They use WebWork 2 right now, so it may involve a migration to
Struts 2, we'll see...
Don
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Jeromy Evans
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has anyone given any more thought to an OSGI container embedded within
Struts2?
I ask because I growing to hate having to build and deploy entire war files
and regularly restart Containers. It seems far behind alternative
technologies.
Is it conceivable that:
- the container provides the infrastructure (and almost never restarts);
- S2 provides a standard deployment/development environment (and is never
undeployed)
- the OSGI container within S2 provides the ability to deploy/undeploy
bundles within that environment
Then, as an S2 developer I package my application up as sensible bundles and
deploy/update them as needed, so I'm working with tiny little jars instead
of massive wars.
Some complex discovery is required with each bundle deployment but
achievable. I'd much prefer something like this rather than S2 apps
themselves being deployed within an OSGI container.
Is this along the lines with your latest thoughts Don or Musachy or have you
moved on?
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