Richard S. Hall wrote:
Mike Milinkovich wrote:
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.
Well, Oscar has existed for nearly five years now...we could have
collaborated when Eclipse started to move to OSGi. ;-)
Seriously, though, this whole Apache OSGi project happened kind of
quickly and even then there was pretty strong community support. There
have been offline discussions with KF about how the two communities can
collaborate, but concrete details have yet to emerge.
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. What are the
inhibitors to Apache using or referencing the Eclipse implementation
and its
related tooling (which itself is a significant piece of work)?
But this direct competition has lead to growth of OSGi and its community
of supporters, so there apparently is some value in it.
Most definitely. Cocoon is considering OSGi largely because there are
three potentially usable open source OSGi implementations. Had there
been only one, it would have been a source of anxiety - dependency on a
single external force. (Cocoon has already suffered from this - it based
itself upon Apache Avalon.)
Regards, Upayavira
