On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Remy Maucherat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:45 +0200, Henri Gomez wrote: > > Hi to all, > > > > Did there is plans, ideas or interest around about OSGI-fing Tomcat ? > > The only thing which ever attracts you is pointless hype, it's quite > funny ;)
I share your concern about OSGI and hype :-) I spent few years working on a project using OSGI heavily, with people buying the hype. It was a big disaster, most time was spent reinventing the wheels and turning perfectly simple code to services, registering the services in a bundle and importing it in another, then figuring out why it's slow to start up or start order problems or manifests. On the other side - OSGI has a good class loader implementation, probably the best ( JBoss has a good one too - using a similar delegation mechanism ). As long as you stick to using the class loader - i.e. have manifests with imports/exports and the boilerplate - OSGI can be a benefit. Since IMO the main problem in tomcat is lack of modularity - it wouldn't be bad to give it a try. Costin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
