Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having 2 problems with Plexus:
> 
> 1) I tried to upgrade and it's not working. They've dropped the  
> ability to dynamically register a new component instance for an  
> existing role. Jason Van Zyl said he's ok to fix it but he's busy on  
> other stuff and it's been now 2 weeks since he said he'll fix it.   
> Generally speaking there are not many people working on Plexus core so  
> it's not moving much.
> 
> 2) I tried using events (it was there in alpha-31 but seem to have  
> disappeared in recent versions - I may be wrong. However since there's  
> zero documentation I had to try to find it in the code and couldn't  
> find it) and couldn't. Even in alpha-31 it doesn't work (it works only  
> for components located in components.xml but since we're dynamically  
> registering components it doesn't work for us.
> 
> Thus I'm more and more tempted to drop support for Plexus and instead  
> use our Embedded component manager for now and start a xwiki-osgi  
> module that would implement our SPI for OSGi. I've read OSGi  
> documentation and it looks not too difficult to do.
> 
> I have all the code done for sending Component Manager events but it  
> won't work with Plexus so I'm proposing to use our Embedded CM for  
> now. In the meantime I'll try to talk to Jason to see what can be done  
> on the plexus side.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Note that our Embedded CM hasn't been tested for multithreading so  
> we'll need to verify it works in the 2.0 dev cycle and fix any  
> threading issue.

We can also take a look at Guice.

I don't know what the switch implies, but since we're in the early 
stages of 2.0, we can try it on the trunk.

-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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