Keep in mind that our usecase is to support the Eclipse Help system (as BJ points out). As such, Tomcat in Eclipse is not API. That is, it does not export any of the or support Tomcat code. It does provide some extensions that plug it into the Eclipse Help mechanism but other than that, it is not generically useful. Note also that because of this usecase, we declined to componentize it and create bundles for all the internal elements (e.g., servlet api, commons.*, mx4j, ...) but rather these libraries are included as JARs inside the org.eclipse.tomcat bundle.
Going forward we want to reconsider our use of Tomcat (its pretty big for our needs) and seek to ship more generically useful bundles for whatever we do ship. Jeff Pascal Rapicault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/25/2006 07:26 PM Please respond to [email protected] To [email protected] cc Subject Re: OSGi bundles for Tomcat It is a bundle but it does not get registered as an http service. I don't have more info on the IBM initiative you are talking about. On 25-Apr-06, at 5:06 PM, BJ Hargrave wrote: > Eclipse has Tomcat in a bundle. Don't know the details but I think they > use to serve up the help. > > BJ Hargrave > Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM > OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Office: +1 407 849 9117 Mobile: +1 386 848 3788 > > > > Enrique Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2006-04-25 04:52 PM > Please respond to > [email protected] > > > To > [email protected] > cc > > Subject > Re: OSGi bundles for Tomcat > > > > > > > Seth White wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am relatively new to OSGi. I was wondering if anyone has created >> OSGi >> bundles for Apache Tomcat. I found the following link that discusses >> this: >> >> http://docs.safehaus.org/display/OSGI/Tomcat+as+OSGi+Bundles > > The short answer is yes. There was an IBM project to bundlize Tomcat > and a published whitepaper, which is where that list is from. But, I > have no idea if those bundles made their way public or where that > whitepaper or any other resources are now. 2 minutes of googling > didn't > turn anything up. > > Enrique > >
