Hello Jim, On Oct 17, 2007, at 21:59 , Jim B wrote:
I want to ask a general question about designing from the ground up a Java Desktop application using the Felix OSGi framework. Really I'm just looking for opinions as too whether it's a good use case for it or not. I'm designing two, small, hopefully fast application in Java. One sort of is a workbench app but I feel the likes of Eclipse RPC and its massive size as over kill. I'd like to try keep it under a meg, as far under as I can. My first intention was to build the core swing application, probably using the new Application framework (JSR 296?) and then use the Java Plugin Framework(JPF) to make it extensible. I plan to have the app run using only the core but be fully extensible. So I could say, create a new view, like thumbnails for the data display panel and have all the menus automatically put this option in the views section so it can be chosen and just work. Then when I have time I can just stick in new jars to add new features. The core is obviously the important part and people can start using it once I have finished the core.
First of all, let me state that I think it's a good use case. In fact, a while ago I wrote a small article (in dutch, so you probably can't read it, but I'll provide a link anyway: http://www.osgi.nl/ 2007/03/11/framework-voor-de-desktop.html) exactly about this: how JSR 296 would benefit from being implemented on top of OSGi.
I look around on the web and sourceforge and I don't see any project or people talking about projects like this that they have done using OSGi. Other than eclipse, net beans and things using their RPC stuff. Is this just to simple a case for the use of OSGi. I see OSGi as something very useful to learn, and JPF/Felix are similar in kilobyte size so it doesn't affect my size limit.
In the past I've done some smaller Swing/OSGi applications, some even open source. Recently we've developed a couple of commercial ones that unfortunately I cannot show here. None of that is based on JSR-296 though.
Has anyone done something simple like this, maybe as an open source project with documentation :)
Perhaps this is something we can start doing? Developing the basic components for doing a Swing based UI for OSGi. I'm sure others have an interest in this too, and even for Felix itself it would be great to have a "management UI" that makes it very easy to monitor all aspects of the framework.
Or does anyone have any advice, things I should read. Are their any good books about software design using OSGi?
There are, unfortunately, hardly any books on OSGi. Greetings, Marcel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
