Aries Applications sound interesting. I like the idea of deploying a single binary for my app rather than 20+ bundles which could be a management nightmare - esp. given we're not really going to be running with random mix'n'match bundles, but a single "release", makes life easier for the admins as well know that "X" is installed, and I guess easier for them to update rather than doing multiple bundles.
I wonder if a zip'd file that contains a self contained repository and a set of feature XML files could be a midpoint. -- Pull me down under... On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Chris Custine <[email protected]> wrote: > Spring DM has a packaging scheme, and the Aries project has another > variation called > Applications:http://incubator.apache.org/aries/applications.html. I think > the Aries application concept is the best option for most uses, but I am not > sure how far along the implementation is. At one point we had discussed > adopting that implementation as a replacement for Features but I'll let > Guillaume give his opinion on that.
