NH> And what I fear is that the strong influx of new technologies that OSGi will
NH> end up being part of and/or supporting through various mechanisms (SOA/WS,
NH> JMX, JMS, and so on), will dilute the quality seen here so far ...
Over my dead body! :-)
Kind regards,
Peter Kriens
NH> On Friday 27 April 2007 20:13, Aggelos Mpimpoudis wrote:
>> So, what is a common practice for reusing existing jars?
NH> As always, one need to know what one is doing. In this case; Beware of SISO
NH> principle. S**t in, s**t out. In other words, un-examined 3rd party
libraries
NH> will sooner or later not do what you expect in an OSGi environment, since
the
NH> library is probably 'buggy' in many areas which isn't noticed, hence not
NH> fixed, in other environments.
NH> I have for long been a strong opponent to "Programming by Coincidence" which
NH> is the current, long-running trend in our industry. "Let's see if it
NH> works..." is a lot more common than "What does the spec say?", and when the
NH> specs do exist, they are often too extensive to be complete, hence few
corner
NH> cases are covered and one need to do the "Let's see if it works...". Worst
is
NH> when those findings are then used to build new models (and sometimes specs)
NH> on top of it.
NH> I love OSGi, because the specs are fairly small (each one), developed over a
NH> long time, so there are less corner cases, and interoperability is high, not
NH> perfect, at least not yet... ;o)
NH> And what I fear is that the strong influx of new technologies that OSGi will
NH> end up being part of and/or supporting through various mechanisms (SOA/WS,
NH> JMX, JMS, and so on), will dilute the quality seen here so far ...
NH> Cheers
NH> Niclas
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