Cool. Just one question though. How difficult would it be to run the tests in the same JVM in an isolated classloader ? It would make debugging way easier than having to hack the test to add the necessary jvm option for remote debugging.
2009/4/29 Alin Dreghiciu <adreghi...@gmail.com>: > About tests, afaik iPojo will move also towards Pax Exam. We are discussing > with Clement about doing the necessary changes in Pax Exam to support all > features required by iPojo tests which were available in junit4osgi. > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Guillaume Nodet <gno...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The past days, I've been working on the blueprint implementation >> inside Geronimo [1]. >> The spec is still being written so the implementation is not really >> stable and is still missing a lot of features. >> However, it's already somewhat usable and as I've hacked Karaf to >> start using blueprint instead of spring-dm in a branch [2]. >> Tests do not even compile, but I've been able to start the console, so >> I thought I would talk about it a bit. >> >> This raises the question whether we want to switch to blueprint >> instead of spring-dm. >> I think we should, and even have to, given that Spring-DM will switch >> to support Blueprint at some point in the future too. Also the >> blueprint spec is way better than spring-dm wrt to namespace handlers >> (that are considered dependencies, so we would not have problems with >> namespace handlers not being available when a bundle is started) and >> classloading (i think classes loaded for namespace handlers will be >> loaded from the namespace handler bundle, thus freeing the bundle to >> import all the namespace handlers packages), though those areas are in >> flux. >> >> If so, we might even want to do that before renaming the packages, as >> the patch is quite big and would be quite broken after the rename imho >> ... >> >> As for tests, we'd have to switch to something else, which could be >> junit4osgi from iPojo or pax-exam for example. >> >> Feedback welcome. >> >> [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/sandbox/blueprint >> [2] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/felix/sandbox/gnodet/karaf-blueprint/ >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Guillaume Nodet >> ------------------------ >> Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ >> ------------------------ >> Open Source SOA >> http://fusesource.com >> > > > > -- > Alin Dreghiciu > http://www.ops4j.org - New Energy for OSS Communities - Open Participation > Software. > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java - Domain Driven Development. > Looking for a job. > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com
