On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: > > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > There are probably many "levels" of OSGi support: > > > 1) Create a single bundle for the whole JAMES Server > > > 2) Create one bundle for each function > > > 3) Create one bundle for each library > > > 4) Create one bundle for each module > > > > > > > AIUI libraries used by OSGi require appropriate MANIFEST entries on a > > per jar basis > > > > Didn't know this. In this case we are forced to fix it for each module.
i'm not so ambitious as to want to OSGi enable trunk ATM just thinking about the mailet libraries > > > IMHO the really needed things would be to be able to undeploy the whole > > > spoolmanager (and by result all the processors/mailets) and redeploy an > > > updated version. In the mean times JAMES would be fully working because > the > > > incoming channel do not block (because of the spool existence). So I > think > > > the "level" that will bring us more advantages with less work in #2. Of > > > course #4 would be good, but it won't add too much to #2. #1 alone does > not > > > give many advantages over what we already do with current standalone > james. > > > > > > I don't really know how complex would be to create a single bundle for > each > > > of our functions and then to have an OSGi-deployment that do something > > > similar to the spring-deployment method (by emulating an avalon > container > > > for OSGi). > > > > > > I read something about OSGi and if IIRC OSGi would be very unhappy when > the > > > same package exists in 2 different bundles, and we know we have a bit of > > > chaos about packages. Is this a blocker? > > > > > > > OSGi does indeed forwn upon this > > > > i wasn't thinking of using OSGi to assemble the whole of JAMES ATM, > > just mailets. configuration is the main issues with mailets but i > > wonder whether the specification should really concern itself with > > configuration at all. i think JAMES would benefit from supporting new > > mailet loading engines. OSGi enabling our mailets would open up the > > possibility of using OSGi as a mailet loader. > > > > I don't understand this. > Can you explain how to use OSGi to load mailets? the usual way :-) > (e.g: How can you reload/reconfigure mailets if you don't unload the > spoolmanager?) just reload at the processor level - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
