The original Plexus implementation is dead and has been for quite a while, even for us. We don't actually use Plexus the container anymore. The extensions that were written for Plexus that sit atop Sisu is the effective Plexus implementation we are using today. What this is in practice, for us, is supporting the Plexus way of finding component metadata and automatically creating the bindings we need so that those Plexus components run in Guice. But Maven runs on top of Guice via Sisu, not Plexus. Maven's core doesn't use any of the plexus lifecycle support either. That said we have tons of components and plugins out in the wild that use the Plexus idioms and we'll have to support that for many years even if there is no trace of Plexus in Maven's core. Which is why we have the Sisu plexus shim.
I am pretty close to removing all Plexus annotations from Maven's core and with a bit of work in the CLI the core will be almost entirely JSR330 running on Guice, but Guice itself is visible in a few places where we have some custom scopes and where the Injector is brought to life. If you don't need any dynamic creation of bindings like we do (our plugin and extension mechanism) then I highly recommend you take a look at Dagger. This is the DI container that Square created and looks like more Google people are working on it now than Square employees. This looks like the successor to Guice and is 24 classes currently, easy to read and works super well in constrained environments like Android and therefore is super fast for normal applications. https://github.com/square/dagger On Feb 8, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since the mailing list archive links on > http://plexus.codehaus.org/mail-lists.html are dead, I thought that > I'd probably reach relevant people here. > > I'm using Sisu/Guice in a project, and I'm looking for a _lightweight_ > way to add classpath isolation. OSGi goes not qualify. Does anyone > still care for plexus? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl http://twitter.com/takari_io --------------------------------------------------------- We all have problems. How we deal with them is a measure of our worth. -- Unknown
