hi, i was rather surprised about the heavy usage of spring for wiring the different parts of the system together. imho, OSGi would be a much better fit, given the there are lots of extensions. so you could enable/disable/install/... a new feature/service to the server while it's running, etc... various parts (eg. NamespaceHandlers) could be put in a separate bundle and only those bundles that are really needed have to be installed.
i just think the dynamic nature of OSGi would be a better fit than hardwiring everything in a spring-config.xml file. wdyt? do you think it's worth the effort? cheers, Gerolf
