Yes, thats the thing i was speaking of! Thanks Alin! Can you put it back ?
How about the codebase or assembly to play around off the record ?

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Alin Dreghiciu <[email protected]>wrote:

> Did you guys considered using
>
> https://docs.sonatype.org/display/Nexus/Nexus+OSGi+Experimental+Features+-+Bundle+Maker
> I wrote an email some months ago about it on this list. Basically the
> result is the same. It generates the bundles on the fly based on an
> autogenerated recipe or on a custom made one for cases when default is
> not enough.
> I think the test server is down but I can put it back on if you wanna
> try it out.
> In plus with the adition of OSS OBR and P2 Nexus plugins we get the
> obr xml and p2 repository for all of this generated bundles.
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:55 PM, David Bosschaert
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I think providing such an OSGi bundle repository is a really useful
> > thing to do, and I would be more than happy to help if help is needed
> > here.
> >
> > Just a couple of thoughts
> > * I think just providing the poms diminishes the value, even though
> > this might be more or invisible to the end user, as:
> >  1. Guillaume's point that bundles with the same bsn + version aren't
> > 100% the same when you compare the bytes, this might exclude certain
> > uses
> >  2. Creating bundles on-the-fly on the server when they are requested
> > can cause serious server load issues and therefore may not scale well
> > * I think it would be good to ultimately provide an OSGi OBR view over
> > this repository as well. This is specified in OSGi RFC 112 [1] and
> > would allow querying for artifacts based on their metadata (i.e. I
> > want a bundle that exports x version y).
> >
> > Overall, I'm quite excited by this proposal!
> >
> > David
> >
> > [1] There is a draft available here:
> > http://www.osgi.org/download/osgi-early-draft-2011-09.pdf should be
> > available as a public spec sometime in March.
> >
> > On 27 January 2012 10:04, Glyn Normington <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> About on-the-fly-bundleisation, I really liked that idea. If there was
> some
> >> way of providing manifest templates which could influence the process to
> >> produce the desired manifest in cases where the default is insufficient
> >> (e.g. when the bundle really needs to be a fragment of a closely related
> >> bundle, essentially part of point 1 below) that would be ideal IMO.
> >>
> >> Care would need to be taken about versioning though, because it would be
> >> possible to change the manifest template and cause the next on-the-fly
> >> result for the corresponding bundle to be different from the previous
> result
> >> but have the same version.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Glyn
> >>
> >> On 27 Jan 2012, at 09:49, Toni Menzel wrote:
> >>
> >> So to be clear: The idea is to host (on Github) poms under the
> >> org.ops4j.pax.tipi flag that:
> >>
> >> 1. osgified imports/export only?
> >> Or do the more complex Osgi-fication as well: Activators, building
> >> composites that work well. What i mean is: its a good start to have
> things
> >> with proper headers in manifest and in centralrepo but its usually just
> the
> >> start of things. The real pain is to actually make it work. One example
> i am
> >> working on right now is the Spring Data Neo4J stuff (famous for SDN).
> What
> >> is really needed is a working example in concise code. This is good for
> >> starters (they don't have to figure out the really evil details) as
> well as
> >> we can provide much higher quality components with confidence via tipi.
> >>
> >> This is a different kind of effort - its much more difficult. I just see
> >> little value in ramping up artifacts under Pax Tipi that resolve well
> on the
> >> package level but actually do not work because of crappy resource
> loading
> >> (namespace-less xml resources for example).
> >> With Exam & Tinybundles we might have some candidates to create proof of
> >> concept examples for the known-to-be-problematic cases (SDN for example)
> >> In Tipi we could create facilities to writing such "proof of concepts"
> >> easily.
> >>
> >> 2. Is this just about OSGi ?
> >> I know, Pax is the OSGi umbrella here. But i also have other candidates
> in
> >> mind that i am missing in Central: Akka (akka.io) for example. Yes,
> Akka has
> >> proper manifest headers already, but i am speaking of it as a library,
> not
> >> as a bundle right now.
> >> So, also pick the non OSGi guys?
> >>
> >> 3. Alin showed an on-the-fly bundleization service some time ago
> >> I think this was a Nexus plugin installed on Sonatype hosts. The idea
> was to
> >> grab Central artifacts (or from wherever ) and have them bundleized on
> the
> >> server-side. This is of cause very similar to pax-url-wrap but with the
> >> difference that the server side knows about that step and can possibly
> >> "learn" and provide better manifests over time automatically. This may
> to
> >> too much (uncontrollable?) magic, also with the ideas in [1] in mind.
> >> Anyway, perhaps Alin can comment on the whereabouts?
> >> Maybe we can use something from it for Tipi ?
> >>
> >> 4. As a last thought, i need to re-address the origin of the problem,
> Harald
> >> wrote "In an ideal world this would not be necessary". But we are not
> in an
> >> ideal world, so we slam a "bug fix" onto this not-ideal world.
> >>
> >> I am now thinking what can help to make the world more ideal ?
> >> Why is eclipse not pushing to Central ?  -> Strange since Sonatypes
> heavy
> >> involvement..
> >> Am i correct that we want to fix to (unrelated!) things with Tipi:
> >> 4.1 Send missing artifacts to Central (not necessarily OSGi)
> >> 4.2 OSGify non OSGi artifacts on a truly open platform (OPS4J)
> >> 4.3 Provide, simple, isolated proof of concept examples (SDN)
> >> 4.4 Have a feedback pipe to the original projects (similar to the
> >> oss.sonatype.org program using Jira) assisting them to make the bug
> fixes we
> >> created (see 4.1,4.2 and 4.3) go away.
> >>
> >> So the idea goal is 4.4: Tipi projects shrink again over time because
> >> original projects have adopted the "bug fixes" into their own
> environment.
> >>
> >> Sound too good to be just called Pax Tipi.
> >>
> >> Wdyt ?
> >>
> >> Toni
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Glyn Normington <
> [email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This sounds like a great proposal if the licensing issues can be ironed
> >>> out. Certainly SpringSource/VMware have been exploring ways to
> transition
> >>> the SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository (EBR, [i]) to a community
> >>> model for some time, but discussions with other vendors are taking a
> while,
> >>> mainly due to licensing issues as you might expect.
> >>>
> >>> Please note that the build and manifest template files from the EBR are
> >>> available on github ([ii]) should the community want to populate Tipi
> with
> >>> equivalents of the bundleised 3rd party JARs in the EBR so they can
> >>> reasonably claim Tipi has superseded the EBR.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Glyn
> >>> [i] http://ebr.springsource.com/repository/app/
> >>> [ii] https://github.com/glyn/bundlerepo
> >>>
> >>> On 26 Jan 2012, at 19:34, Harald Wellmann wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > In an ideal world, there would be no need for this...
> >>> >
> >>> > Every open source Java project would build OSGi bundles instead of
> plain
> >>> > old JARs and push them to The Central Repository (aka Maven Central).
> >>> >
> >>> > But the harsh reality is, Maven-based OSGi projects often require
> >>> > third-party libs that are not mavenized or osgified, or neither.
> >>> >
> >>> > Some notorious examples that affect Pax Exam:
> >>> > - JUnit 4.10 is in Maven Central, but not osgified
> >>> > - Equinox 3.7.1 is OSGi (obviously...) but not in Maven Central.
> >>> >
> >>> > Of course, the preferred approach is submitting enhancement or pull
> >>> > requests to the original developers and hoping they'll do their
> homework
> >>> > within reasonable time.
> >>> >
> >>> > Sometimes this works (example: TestNG [1]), sometimes it doesn't
> >>> > (examples: JUnit [2][3], Equinox [4]).
> >>> >
> >>> > So what I'm proposing is similar to Apache Servicemix Bundles or
> >>> > SpringSource Enterprise Bundle Repository, but with a big difference
> - the
> >>> > OPS4J low-to-no barrier philosophy: if you want to get a job done,
> just do
> >>> > it and share it.
> >>> >
> >>> > In essence, Pax Tipi should contain nothing but POMs or other build
> >>> > scripts, it's only about repackaging existing libraries and pushing
> them to
> >>> > Central using the existing OPS4J infrastructure.
> >>> >
> >>> > We'd have to set up some naming and versioning standards, but that's
> >>> > about it.
> >>> >
> >>> > What do you think?
> >>> >
> >>> > [1] https://github.com/cbeust/testng/pull/86
> >>> > [2] https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/EBR-803
> >>> > [3] https://github.com/KentBeck/junit/pull/368
> >>> > [4] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=365798
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers,
> >>> > Harald
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >
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