Jorg, This is amazingly significant.
I'm convinced that there is massive overlap. I sure hope the Eclipse team do too. - Paul > Hello Avalon developers, > > recently a new Eclipse project started to discuss and develop strategies for > their runtime configuration (http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/index.html). The > Eclipse team faces currently major problems with all the several plugins > unsing different versions of the same archives having interdependencies. Also > the complete plugin management and the component distribution is under > discussion. > > While they first looked for an OSGi (http://www.osgi.org/) implementation, that > would cover a lot of their problems, they had to realize that this free > standard does not guarantee, that all elements of it may be free of any > patent royaltees. > > Looking at the broad range of Avalon I am quite sure, that Avalon has a lot to > offer in this context too, but I do not feel competent enough to present Avalon > in any ongoing discussion at their newsgroup. May be one of you is interested > in this, since I could imagine that the usage ov Avalon technology in Eclipse > would give Avalon a lot of awareness and would help to bring the complete > development forward. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]