That's exactly the problem. Once we sort out how to make components,
how to make some people want to use, and advance them thru many
non-technical stages to become trusted components that folks will
actually trust, we come to the fundamental problem; an incentive model
for going to all that time and expense.
As I put it at http://bradcox.blogspot.com, ours is a mud brick
business. We are *paid* to make ad-hoc untrusted mud bricks; i.e.
services is the only robust way to get paid. Mud bricks are *free*. Real
(trusted) ones are not.
I was once an optimist on this point; even wrote a book on how to do it.
These days I'm not.
Sun/RedHat have an interesting model. Give away the bits. Sell trust
instead. I.e. OpenSSO express vs enterprise.
Marcel Offermans wrote:
On the other hand, I don't think commercial development tools
stand a chance of being profitable in this market either.
I know Peter Kriens has done a lot of thinking about better build
systems for OSGi. Perhaps he has something to add to this discussion.
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