It was first standardized in Release 2 (2001). BJ Hargrave Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance [EMAIL PROTECTED]
office: +1 386 848 1781 mobile: +1 386 848 3788 Aggelos Mpimpoudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/23/2007 05:26 PM Please respond to OSGi Developer Mail List <[email protected]> To OSGi Developer Mail List <[email protected]> cc Subject Re: [osgi-dev] Knopflerfish and Eclipse (ServiceTracker) Benjamin Reed wrote: >> A LOT simpler ... in the early days of OSGi we >> found that we were all >> making our own abstractions to handle this tracking >> so we decided it >> was better if we standardized it. >> > > It was actually a bit worse than that. We were all > doing our own abstractions and they all had bugs in > them. Part of the benefit of standardizing it was that > we could concentrate on making it work correctly once > and all benefit. > > ben > > > When did u standardize it? Just for encyclopedic knowledge! Because at some tutorials I have found over the web, I think that they still propose the serviceListeners model, so apparently the didn't refactored their tutorials to the serviceTracker model (yet?!). Aggelos _______________________________________________ OSGi Developer Mail List [email protected] http://www2.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev _______________________________________________ OSGi Developer Mail List [email protected] http://www2.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
