Mike Milinkovich wrote:
If Eclipse would be willing to contribute to the
development of a unified OSGi platform within the ASF, that
could be one immediately viable approach.
Can you provide some more details regarding the creation of a unified OSGi
platform? What other projects (Knoplerfish?) are participating here? AFAIK,
there has been no attempt to interact with or invite Eclipse participation.
True we have not had the time. However we welcome the people at the
Eclipse Foundation to get involved in both the code and the community
that is revolving around this project.
As I am sure you're aware, Eclipse's OSGi project already has a sizeable
product quality code base, community, and user group. Would it not make just
as much sense to bring your contributions to Eclipse as the other way
around? Or alternatively re-use the work that has already been done at
Eclipse?
We have used both eclipse runtime and oscar. Our preference was Oscar;
we felt it had a richer set of features.
Apache and Eclipse (and ObjectWeb for that matter) have a pretty good track
record at co-operating at many different levels. Why it would serve the
interests of Apache, Eclipse, ObjectWeb, OSGi or the greater open source
community to have directly competing projects is beyond me.
There is nothing wrong with two implementations or two communities IMO.
The communities or products need not "compete" but can work together to
give the users options. Thanks to the specification we can
transparently switch from container to container without worries.
What are the
inhibitors to Apache using or referencing the Eclipse implementation and its
related tooling (which itself is a significant piece of work)?
No reason that I know of. However I have yet to look closely at the
Eclipse Software License. Regardless we are not going to stop this
effort because we can use Eclipse. Too many projects at the ASF will
become dependent on OSGi and possibly container'isms to have to rely on
an external community or an external code base. And yes many server
projects here at the ASF are considering OSGi now.
Perhaps we can talk more about how Eclipse can join in this effort. Do
you have something in mind?
Regards,
Alex
Mike Milinkovich
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Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
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