Niclas Hedhman wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2005 06:34, Vadim Gritsenko wrote: > >>Isn't it the first goal to make (any) existing block (with no code >>modifications) run under OSGi? > > AFAIU, Existing blocks would run unchanged in the ECM<->OSGi bridge bundle. > > I think Daniel is talking "real blocks" here, and I think that would require > the blocks to have OSGi code in them, at least for the Bundle Activator and > ServiceFactory. Of course there is an option to make a Cocoon specific > abstraction level on top of the basic OSGi mechanisms, but to me it seems to > only hamper the progress, resulting in endless debates of what to expose and > not.
This had come up during the first Blockathon day when I was present, and it seemed to me that there were no real objections. OSGi is not a plain POJO system, and in part this is nice as it does not depart too much from some Avalon constructs. > Put the stick in the ground. Declare "OSGi bundles is the plugin mechanism > for > Cocoon." Then move from there. :o) Build it, show it, and if there are objections, let them be in code. -- Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] - verba volant, scripta manent - (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) ---------------------------------------------------------------------