On Feb 5, 2008 5:56 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > with the release of the OSGi extension to Spring[1], it seems to be
> > reasonably easy to turn any spring app into an OSGi deployment ('bundle').
>
> Yes, but doing so seems backwards.

Why? To me this seems very straightforward.

> It appears that SpringSource is
> conceding that OSGi is to Spring as JSF is to Struts, and that Spring will
> go the way of Struts.

Maybe, as I completely don't know what you are talking about.

> So why not write directly to the standard in the
> first place,

I agree, having a pure osgi deployment makes sense.
It would give as re-deployable components. (Setting aside the fact
that our components are not build to be redeployed. It simply will not
work without massive refactorings on a component-level.)

But who is willing to take the pain of either
* moving over our complete component framework to osgi, from one
massive-invasive to another one (I didn't yet take a look at iPojo,
though) and removing Avalon/Phoenix support
* creating another wrapper around Avalon, like the one we have in
spring-deployment. (at least spring is build for this task, see
BeanFactory and BeanDefinitionReader.)

> and discard the legacy Spring code?

:-) LOL. You are trolling. Avalon is a legacy. Spring is widely used,
easy to handle, well documented and in active development.
There is no reason why spring-, phoenix- and eventually
pure-osgi-deployment couldn't exists side-by-side. And guess what:
Everyone who is looking for ease-of-integration with other POJOs is
best served with spring-deployment.

   Bernd

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