Interesting project, taking a look see :)

--Jamie


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds very interesting. Less is more. I absolutely need to try this :).
>
> Thanks,
> Hadrian
>
>
> On 12/04/2013 03:41 PM, Ioannis Canellos wrote:
>
>> For anyone curious on how Karaf without Blueprint would look like,
>> here is a karaf branch that is free of blueprint:
>> https://github.com/iocanel/karaf/tree/karaf-light (it's a fork of the
>> karat-2.3.x branch).
>>
>> It is actually a refactored karaf 2.3.x that removes blueprint from
>> all modules (yet still provides blueprint as feaures). Karaf specific
>> blueprint namespace handlers have moved to optional bundles so that
>> they can still be used if needed.
>> Blueprint has been replaced with Felix SCR (including the shell
>> commands). Moreover, misc refactorings on features and startup bundles
>> have been performed in order to reduce the size and the amount of
>> bundles in the minimal distro.
>>
>> The result is a minimal distribution that starts 12 bundles [1] (out
>> of 37 which were part of karaf 2.3.3 minimal distro). 10 of those
>> bundle were blueprint bundles and the rest are extra noise.
>>
>> My motivation behind this refactoring was:
>> i) I like declarative services more than blueprint.
>> ii) I've been working on projects that are packaged inside the karaf
>> minimal distro which would benefit from a smaller size (e.g.
>> jclouds-cli).
>> iii) I wanted to make a karaf distro as flexible as possible.
>>
>> Please note that my main focus was the minimal distribution and also
>> this is not 100% polished.
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>>
>> [1]: The bundle list of the minimal distro:
>>
>>     ID   State         Level  Name
>> [   0] [Active     ] [    0] System Bundle (4.0.3)
>> [   1] [Active     ] [    5] OPS4J Pax Url - mvn: (1.3.6)
>> [   2] [Active     ] [    5] OPS4J Pax Url - wrap: (1.3.6)
>> [   3] [Active     ] [    8] OPS4J Pax Logging - API (1.7.1)
>> [   4] [Active     ] [    8] OPS4J Pax Logging - Service (1.7.1)
>> [   5] [Active     ] [   10] Apache Felix Configuration Admin Service
>> (1.6.0)
>> [   6] [Active     ] [   11] Apache Felix File Install (3.2.6)
>> [   7] [Active     ] [   13] Apache Felix Declarative Services (1.6.2)
>> [   8] [Active     ] [   25] Apache Karaf :: Shell :: Console
>> (2.3.4.SNAPSHOT)
>> [   9] [Active     ] [   30] Apache Karaf :: Features :: Core
>> (2.3.4.SNAPSHOT)
>> [  10] [Active     ] [   30] Apache Karaf :: Features :: Command
>> (2.3.4.SNAPSHOT)
>> [  11] [Active     ] [   30] Apache Karaf :: Shell :: Log Commands
>> (2.3.4.SNAPSHOT)
>> [  12] [Active     ] [   30] Apache Karaf :: Shell :: OSGi Commands
>> (2.3.4.SNAPSHOT)
>>
>>

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