FWIW, the Equinox Incubator (http://eclipse.org/equinox/incubator) has a server side work area that includes a servlet bridge for running OSGi inside a servlet as well as a simple bundle that allows one to contribute servlets to an HTTP server via the Equinox extension registry.
Jeff Daniel Fagerstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/20/2006 08:17 AM Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected] cc Subject Re: [jira] Commented: (FELIX-58) Extend HTTP Service to support deploying WARs Richard S. Hall skrev: > Daniel Fagerstrom (JIRA) wrote: >> [ >> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-58?page=comments#action_12375305 >> ] >> Daniel Fagerstrom commented on FELIX-58: >> ---------------------------------------- >> >> Ok, then bundle based webapps could become a separate issue. >> > > Definitely. And a welcome one. Do you think this should be an issue > under the HTTP Service specifically or somehow separated? We can > create a separate issue for it if you want. Just let me know what you > want it to say. > A separate issue (bundle based webapps e.g.) would be good. For bundle based webapps one need IMO framework support on (at least) two different level: An implementation of the whiteboard pattern for making it easier to use the Http service and OSGi aware webapp container functionality for enabling communication between servlets in a convenient way. I guess that most people who start using the Http service will develop a "whiteboard adaptor" so that it is enough for a servlet bundle to register a servlet service together with a context path, the whiteboard adaptor reacts on the service registration event an register the servlet in the Http Service. Felix could provide a "standard" implementation of this. In Cocoon we have an implementation that use the declarative service: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/trunk/core/cocoon-blocks-fw/cocoon-blocks-fw-impl/META-INF/components.xml , http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cocoon/trunk/core/cocoon-blocks-fw/cocoon-blocks-fw-impl/src/main/java/org/apache/cocoon/blocks/Activator.java . The Http service doesn't give much support at all for communication between servlets and for having reusable servlets. In the Cocoon community we have worked on developing a framework for block (plugin) based webapps for quite a while (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=114237414521595&w=2 for the latest incarnation and http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/Blocks for a higher level, but obsolete description). This work includes having a light weight OSGi aware webapp container. If there is interest, the more generic parts (or all of the framework), could be developed together with the Felix community. /Daniel
