On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@takari.io> wrote: > 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
I'll go read. Thanks. > > 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 > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
