On Jun 1, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Pascal Voitot wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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. >> > > I had some reading about guice and it seems quite powerful and well > designed > and much lighter and focused on DI than Spring and maybe a bit "more > modern > and alive" than plexus even if plexus did it right... there is also an > out-of-the-box OSGI integration extension http://code.google.com/p/peaberry/
yep, see http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-3949 Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
