One thing that the Spring-OSGi guys are working on is a way to leverage the dependency information within Maven pom's to extrapolate OSGi dependencies. The goal being not to have to duplicate the dependency information. Contributing a similar functionality to that project that is able to leverage the dependency information in Ivy might be a really good thing; it would give Ivy greater exposure to people. Not having this support for Ivy would give some people greater reason to select something like Maven since it would mean that if you accept Maven you get Spring-OSGi information for free. It also may mean that even if you aren't using Maven yourself, and just were to use Spring-OSGi - then the spring components are still able to leverage the dependency information from Maven repositories. Selecting Maven for a project would give you greater exposure to a larger base of consumers.
http://www.springframework.org/osgi As an aside, aren't there serious issues with the current Maven pom parsers? I haven't gotten it to work correctly once - at least in 1.4, I haven't tried the CVS version. On 3/14/07, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Forwarded message below. Is it something that could be interesting for us? Who can propose an idea (I mean, do you need to be an ASF member?). I'm wondering if submitting an idea around Ivy/OSGi integration could be interesting. OSGi gains more and more momentum, and it seems that using a dependency manager like Ivy on an OSGi based project could be interesting, especially if Ivy had an OSGi manifest parser (as the pom parser). WDYT? - Xavier ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mar 14, 2007 3:06 PM Subject: Fwd: Google Summer of Code To: [email protected] Hi, Woden and Tuscany have already proposed GSoC projects. Other incubating projects might also be interested. Notice the tight timeframe, if your project is interested then you need to move quickly. BR, Jukka Zitting ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mar 14, 2007 3:53 PM Subject: Google Summer of Code To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Google are due to announce the accepted organisations in the Google Summer of Code today. Unfortunately, I've been really busy with other things recently and have not managed to organise the ASF application as well as I might. However, I did manage to notify the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list of the process and I did get an application in on time. So, now to the next stage. This message is mailed to members@ as well as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please feel free to distribute to your projects, I chose not to send to community@ or committers@ because I'm aware different projects like to manage GSoC applications in different ways. It's up to the members to take this forward in individual projects. Student applications will open today and will close on March 24th. If your projects want to accept applications from GSoC students then you need to ensure you have details listed on http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2007 If you want more info on what being a mentor means then a good place to start is http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code/wiki/AdviceforMentors Interested parties should also subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where all internal communication about GSoC occurs (like how we select which projects to accept). Ross --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- - Eric
