Equinox is the OSGi implementation for eclipse that provides all of the plugin functionality. I think an interesting approach would be to exploit OSGi technology like Equinox or Apache Felix in order to achieve the modularity and flexibility that OSGi modules provide, without committing to a very heavy-weight app such as Eclipse. Nonetheless, I do also think that modularity and flexibility are important goals.
-Tom On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Stefan Kurzbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Globus service and framework developers, > > I want to explain an idea I had about combining a grid service with the > Eclipse framework. > > My goal is to have an Eclipse-based grid service so I can make use of the > elaborate Eclipse plug-in system. This would help in developing dynamic > services as plug-ins can be hot-deployed into the platform. > > A similar project is the Equinox servlet bridge. It starts an Eclipse > platform inside a servlet container (e.g. Tomcat). A servlet request would > be forwarded to a registered delegate servlet that resides in the running > Eclipse platform. This servlet's functionality can then be dynamically > extended via the Eclipse extension point mechanism. > > I would like to discuss about the possibility of spawning a plug-in-based > version of the Globus Toolkit. Via an extension point, new web services > could then be added as Eclipse plug-ins. What is your opinion about that? > > Have a good day, > Stefan Kurzbach >
