Hello Jody, Tisham, I have made my first commit into the plugin branch (r37162), by integrating the generation of the OSGi metada in the MANIFESTs using the Felix Maven Bundle plugin.
This is basically the patch that I had sent recently and that Tisham had tested. I plan to work as follow, please tell me if you agree with the approach before I make further commits: - I will create a (temporary) /osgi directory at the root of the branch, which will be our playing ground. The rationale for a dedicated directory is that we will probably need quite a few bundles (=> directories / eclipse projects) in order to implement and test the various approaches. - in order to move on quickly, I will use tools that my organization has developed in order to generate PDE target platforms using Maven etc (all Apache 2 licensed). This will allow anybody to quickly set up projects compatible with the Plugin (<=> OSGi) Development Environment (PDE) in Eclipse. No need to say that using these tools won't be a requirement for the approach that we will use in the end. - I will also use third-party libraries that we had already packaged as OSGi bundles (e.g. jts, java3d, jsr275, etc.) and which are available in our public Maven repo. I had packaged these libraries using the Maven Bundle plugin and the original GeoTools dependencies, so it should be easy to reuse them for the final approach Anyhow, the idea is to have ASAP something to test our various ideas, that can easily be reproduced by others than me. I will first start with the publication of the services/* implementations at runtime (point 1 of Tisham previous mail). I am not sure that I want to reuse the JBoss stuff though. This is not that complicated to do and JBoss utilities as dependencies are often painful according to my (perhaps outdated) experience. When this is done, that will be a first milestone for us all to test and discuss, before maybe going to the other approach (generation at compile time, Tisham's point 2). I will test on the simple yet illustrative use case of the CRS factories as suggested by Jody long ago, and I will probably reuse some stuff I had already tried on my side over the last few months. All comments, critics, alternative ideas more than welcome. Cheers, Mathieu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
