IMHO the ApacheDS project already provides the plugable infrastructure your talking about. It uses JNDI as the API to plug-in the various storage implementations and to plug in the various protocols as well.
John On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 18:19 +0100, Rob Walker wrote: > Have to add my +1 to the storage plugin idea. > > We've looked at Preferences, Config Admin and User Admin ourselves a few > time as cleaner, and standardized replacements for our own more limited, > and hard coded options. What's always stopped us going further though is > the need for a flexible (i.e pluggable) set of storage options that can > allow our OSGi based apps to be tailored and config'd into quite a > diverse set of corporate environments. > > -- Rob > > Richard S. Hall wrote: > > > I am in agreement with you Marcel, that it would be great if we could > > have a separate Storage service or something that could be used as a > > back-end for services requiring storage. I don't have any time to help > > out, but I can surely give my $0.02 during the process! :-) > > > > -> richard > > > > Marcel Offermans wrote: > > > >> A while ago Enrique already announced directory backed Preferences > >> and ConfigAdmin implementations, and recently I discussed with him a > >> similar UserAdmin implementation. > >> > >> These three services all have in common that they need some back-end > >> to actually persist data. > >> > >> I hope that within Felix we can create implementations of these > >> services that have pluggable back-ends. We might even be able to > >> create some kind of common persistence service that can be used by > >> all of them. > >> > >> Would others be interested in this (using it and/or helping develop it)? > >> > >> I'm offering my help to get these implementations working. Enrique, I > >> know you have some R3 code in your ApacheDS sandbox, perhaps that > >> would be a nice starting point. Browsing through the archives I saw > >> that Michel also had a lightweight Preferences service. > >> > >> Greetings, Marcel > >> > >> >
