> If Eclipse would be willing to contribute to the > development of a unified OSGi platform within the ASF, that > could be one immediately viable approach.
Can you provide some more details regarding the creation of a unified OSGi platform? What other projects (Knoplerfish?) are participating here? AFAIK, there has been no attempt to interact with or invite Eclipse participation. As I am sure you're aware, Eclipse's OSGi project already has a sizeable product quality code base, community, and user group. Would it not make just as much sense to bring your contributions to Eclipse as the other way around? Or alternatively re-use the work that has already been done at Eclipse? Apache and Eclipse (and ObjectWeb for that matter) have a pretty good track record at co-operating at many different levels. Why it would serve the interests of Apache, Eclipse, ObjectWeb, OSGi or the greater open source community to have directly competing projects is beyond me. What are the inhibitors to Apache using or referencing the Eclipse implementation and its related tooling (which itself is a significant piece of work)? Mike Milinkovich Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation, Inc. Office: 613-224-9461 x228 Cell: 613-220-3223 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blog: http://milinkovich.blogspot.com/
