> Dennis Reedy wrote: > > "Forget about OSGi for now, its a red herring for River moving out of > incubation, and frankly a bit of noise that produces the same reaction > every > time it is posted. This is not to say the each technology (combined or > separate) does not have its merits/issues, its just time to move on. ..." >
Let me paraphrase what Dennis means; Every time the discussion of how we move jini/river forward, we get the same bunch of nay-sayers spewing onto the list. Let's just try and get a release out with what have now so we can see how to get the next release built. <snip/> > > I agree with the last phrase of the last sentence. But it's remarkable how > differently we collectively disagree with what "...moving on..." means! To > some, "moving on" means embracing OSGi, particularly distributed OSGi > (D-OSGi). To others, it means treating OSGi as orthogonal to Jini/River. > > I know you guys are very busy, but it would be nice if the most experienced > Jini/River software engineers were able to dissect the [OSGi] RFC 119 and > provide an assessment as to how or if it is "suited" for Jini/River. I > know > it's tough to allocate time to do that though. > I went to the OSGI conference in Zurich, and will be attending the UK OSGI conference in London on July 14th to try and get a handle on where D-OSGI is going. Or rather "Remoteness in OSGI" as it seems to be called these days. I've been working on a few possible uses for OSGI, as it relates to Jini and in certain situations it's a very good mix. Using Rio and Felix I've taken an existing application (which is currently live and working very nicely) and tried to wire up the application using Bundles, by embdeding an instance of Apache Felix inside my ServiceBean (Rio speak for Jini service). And shock horror..... it worked. I've also been playing around with turning functional parts of the Jini codebase into bundles, exporters, service discovery etc and I've had some success and failure. Hopefully I'll see some Jini guys at the conference, but if not I'll post up my findings on org.indjinn (when I've set it up!) Cheers, --Jools
