Hi Jeffery There's not been much action on the native container for a while now. Speaking for myself I've been engrossed in the Java runtime. The push at the moment is to get the Java 2.x codebase up and compliant with the new OASIS SCA specifications as they are reviewed and head toward standardization.
The native runtime has fallen well behind in terms of the level of SCA that it supports and updating it to support all the features of the latest specs would take quite a bit of effort IMHO. An alternative approach could be to use the Java runtime to do the contribution processing in order to generate appropriate configuration and proxies to drive the native runtime. This is not a new thought as it's been mentioned by others before and there is already Java code in the native runtime doing proxy generation. It's also similar to the approach we take with other runtimes such as BPEL where the Tuscany Java code processes the contribution and pushes down configuration into the ODE runtime. A project for anyone who's interested. Simon
