Richard,
Dieter Wimberger wrote:Actually I am the author of the project, so we can discuss it right here; and if you are interested, I guess we can also manage to release it under Apache 2 license (except the external SSH library, which is under a BSD license).Interesting. Didn't know you were here. :-)
I am ;)I was already was giving Felix a hard time, because I was trying to port to felix and do configuration tasks with the webconsole.
When you say "an OSGi port", what exactly do you mean?
It's an OSGi bundle that carries a bundle descriptor and a metatype descriptor; it works as a ManagedServiceFactory to create instances of listeners (telnet and SSH) through the CM. It's also implementing a white board model design (I call it OSGi mediator) for adding shells through additional bundles (using the OSGi service registry).
A question we should discuss is, if there are limits sought with regards to the runtime environment, because the codebase is Java 2 now (may be backportable, though).Good question. I would certainly like to have a version that would work with older/smaller Java platforms. However, we don't require that all Felix subprojects work on Java platforms, it just makes them more useful if they can be...
The language level I currently use is Java 1.3. In comparison to the older codebase, it may not run on very small embedded systems that are often Java 1 (if at all).
I took this decision, because I needed SSH and the library I found (latest version is released under MIT license; http://www.lag.net/paramiko/java) needs 1.3.
I guess it would be possible to get some things that are overhead out of the codebase and add them as extensions (e.g. Templates based on antlr and stringtemplates, Beanshell based shell, text editors etc.). It all depends on the requirements and the functionality you would like to see.
Regards, Dieter
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