John E. Conlon wrote:
Hi Enrique,
Has anymore work been done on the Felix Product Plugin?
No, none. After completing some reading on Eclipse this weekend* I've
come to the conclusion that, in order to avoid re-inventing the wheel,
either the product/deployment needs to be standardized by OSGi Alliance
or that we should use what Eclipse has come up with. We have this need
on Directory to ship various product configurations and the Eclipse
model of composing products from features composed of bundles is exactly
what I want to do. Albeit, with the awesome service installers that
Alex made. Anyway, that's my pragmatic choice given that such
infrastructure exists in Eclipse and, this being OSS, I am better off
focusing on infrastructure protocols. So, unless there is a huge
movement in the M2 community to support OSGi product configurations, let
alone the Felix M2 Plugin, I have totally lost my motivation to code
this plugin.
After experimenting with the Initial Provisioning Service it seems to me
that this could be the standard approach for doing this.
Are there any implementations of the Initial Provisioning Service or
tools for creating the provisioning zip files?
I am looking at writing a M2 plugin for creating the zips unless
something better is out there.
I know you're working on Provisioning. That'll need a grant and CLA,
either CCLA or ICLA depending on your work agreement. That'll be a
great addition to Felix. Hope to see it soon.
Enrique
* "Eclipse Distilled," "Contributing to Eclipse," and "Eclipse RCP"
