Jools, That's great to hear! Please let me know when you set up org.indjinn. I'd love to see it.
Also, I suspect you will see some of the Paremus guys at the London event. Thank you! Sam On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Jools <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Sam Chance 443-694-5293 (m) 410-694-0240 x108 (o)
