Do we need a review?
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Kishanthan Thangarajah <kishant...@wso2.com > wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Nuwan Bandara <nu...@wso2.com> wrote: > >> Hi Kishanthan, >> >> A useful feature indeed, does this mean a tenant can install bundle for >> his own space ? >> > > Yes, each tenant will have a separate space (Region) and they can install > bundles on to it. Other tenants will not be aware of this (bundle and > service life-cycle events will be filtered) and cannot access those bundles > (import package requirements will be filtered) . > > Also a bundle, with same symbolic name and version, can be installed on > multiple tenant regions. This is handled using the BundleCollsionHook. > >> >> Regards, >> /Nuwan >> >> >> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Suresh Attanayaka <sur...@wso2.com>wrote: >> >>> HI Kishanthan, >>> >>> This is indeed a very helpful to have, one advantage I would see is we >>> can let the tenants to have deployed their own Authenticators, >>> UserStoreManagers and various other extensions without interfering the >>> system. But how would be expose a Core service such as RealmService >>> or RegistryService ? >>> >>> For example, each tenant will want to access their RealmService to load >>> their configured user-store in their custom Authenticator. How would we >>> make sure the RealmService would return only that tenant's RealmService or >>> it's corresponding user store manager ? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Suresh >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Kishanthan Thangarajah < >>> kishant...@wso2.com> wrote: >>> >>>> This is one of the core areas of C5 kernel. In previous carbon >>>> versions, the multi-tenancy aspect was limited to run-time execution only. >>>> In there, we used the Axis2 Configuration & Context model to achieve the >>>> multi-tenancy where each tenant got its own execution space during >>>> run-time. But the OSGi environment was not partitioned for tenants and was >>>> visible to all, where a bundle (the library and its packages) installed by >>>> a tenant was visible to other tenants as well. >>>> >>>> The idea here is to implement Multi-Tenancy at OSGi framework level >>>> also, so that each tenant gets its totally isolated run-time environment. >>>> We are planning to use OSGi "Regions" [1] concept to achieve this with the >>>> usage of OSGi framework hooks. A region is a grouping of bundles in an OSGi >>>> run-time, which is governed by controls when accessing resources (packages, >>>> services) from other regions. >>>> >>>> Each tenant gets its own region and there will be a separate "Kernel" >>>> region where the core bundles/packages/service resides and will be exposed >>>> to tenant regions. We can still limit/decide on what to expose from kernel >>>> region. Each tenant region will be isolated from each other. They will not >>>> see any events (related to bundle, service) or package visibility from >>>> other regions, but only see from it self and kernel. Below image is high >>>> level view of this concept. >>>> >>>> [image: Inline image 1] >>>> >>>> An overview of the framework hooks. >>>> >>>> *RegionResolverHook* - manages the package resolve process for >>>> requirements from bundles in regions. >>>> *RegionBundleFindHook* - manages/filters the BundleContext.getBundle >>>> lookups from region bundles. >>>> *RegionBundleEventHook* - manages/filters the bundle's life-cycle >>>> events for regions. >>>> *RegionBundleCollisionHook* - manages the duplicate bundle resolving >>>> in multiple regions. This will facilitate to have same bundles in different >>>> regions. >>>> *RegionServiceFindHook* and *RegionServiceEventHook* - manages/filters >>>> the service lookup and life-cycle events for regions. >>>> >>>> Thoughts suggestions are welcome. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Kishanthan. >>>> [1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Virgo/Concepts#Regions >>>> >>>> -- >>>> *Kishanthan Thangarajah* >>>> Senior Software Engineer, >>>> Platform Technologies Team, >>>> WSO2, Inc. >>>> lean.enterprise.middleware >>>> >>>> Mobile - +94773426635 >>>> Blog - *http://kishanthan.wordpress.com >>>> <http://kishanthan.wordpress.com>* >>>> Twitter - *http://twitter.com/kishanthan >>>> <http://twitter.com/kishanthan>* >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Architecture mailing list >>>> Architecture@wso2.org >>>> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Suresh Attanayake >>> Senior Software Engineer; WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com/ >>> Blog : http://sureshatt.blogspot.com/ >>> Web : http://www.ssoarcade.com/ >>> Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/IdentityWorld >>> Twitter : https://twitter.com/sureshatt >>> LinkedIn : http://lk.linkedin.com/in/sureshatt >>> Mobile : +94755012060 >>> Mobile : +016166171172 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Architecture mailing list >>> Architecture@wso2.org >>> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> *Thanks & Regards,* >> * Nuwan Bandara | Senior Technical Lead - Solutions Architecture, WSO2 >> Inc.+1 812.606.7390 <%2B1%20812.606.7390> | +1 650.745.4499 Ext 4210 >> <%2B1%20650.745.4499%20Ext%204210> | http://nuwanbando.com >> <http://nuwanbando.com> * <http://www.nuwanbando.com/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Architecture mailing list >> Architecture@wso2.org >> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >> >> > > > -- > *Kishanthan Thangarajah* > Senior Software Engineer, > Platform Technologies Team, > WSO2, Inc. > lean.enterprise.middleware > > Mobile - +94773426635 > Blog - *http://kishanthan.wordpress.com <http://kishanthan.wordpress.com>* > Twitter - *http://twitter.com/kishanthan <http://twitter.com/kishanthan>* > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > Architecture@wso2.org > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > -- ============================ Srinath Perera, Ph.D. http://people.apache.org/~hemapani/ http://srinathsview.blogspot.com/
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