Justin, Yes, I agree, many options is a good thing. I'm just trying to get some overview on things to make it possible to decide on a direction.
I'm a bit surprised, though, that the OSGi Alliance hasn't standardised the annotations - it would make sense I think. But I guess a viable path is to use blueprint (XML or annotations) to publish services and then use iPojo to consume them? I'm also evaluating the concept of an Aries application vs Karaf features. Seems like a similar concept to me. Is this Aries specific of OSGi standard? /Bengt 2010/9/7 Justin Edelson <[email protected]> > On 9/7/10 11:32 AM, Bengt Rodehav wrote: > > Justin, > > > > Yes I did actually see this but was unsure of its status. Is the > > annotations specified by OSGi or are they specific to Aries? I'm > > guessing the former which makes it interesting for portability reasons. > The Blueprint spec only covers XML. I would hope that the OSGi alliance > standardizes annotations. > > > > > Functionality wise it is very similar to iPojo. However, iPojo does not > > seem related to blueprint at all (I might be wrong here) but seems to > > solve the same problem. iPojo, however, has a lot more functionality and > > also seems to be more mature. > You are free to use iPojo and Blueprint within the same application. > This is, to me, one of the best parts about OSGi - how a service is > published has no bearing on how it is consumed. > > > > > Have you had any contact with Clement Escoffier at the Felix/iPojo > > project? Seems like iPojo would be a natural candidate for the blueprint > > annotation functionality. I'm a bit confused as to what path I should > > choose and also why there are two different paths regarding this within > > Apache. > There's more than 2 within Apache. :) > > There's also an implementation of the Declarative Services spec in the > Felix project (Felix SCR). The Felix SCR Maven plugin supports > annotations at compile time to produce the DS descriptor file. > > Justin > > > > > Do you have more information on this matter? > > > > Also, what is the status of Aries blueprint annotation support? Is it > > being used in production? When will it be released? > > > > /Bengt > > > > > > > > 2010/9/7 Justin Edelson <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > Did you see > http://incubator.apache.org/aries/blueprintannotation.html > > > > On 9/7/10 2:57 AM, Bengt Rodehav wrote: > > > Is it possible to publish and consume blueprint services using > > > annotations? I've been using iPojo in Karaf before which has been > very > > > convenient. > > > > > > /Bengt > > > > > >
