Re: more OSGI thoughts?

2008-09-11 Thread Don Brown
Written from scratch, although it did build on the plugin, conceptually. Don On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Musachy Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah that sounds cool. Is it based on the current OSGi plugin or is it > written from scratch? > musachy > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:59 PM,

Re: more OSGI thoughts?

2008-09-11 Thread Musachy Barroso
Yeah that sounds cool. Is it based on the current OSGi plugin or is it written from scratch? musachy On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Jeromy Evans < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don Brown wrote: > >> The Atlassian plugin system has been in Atlassian products for years, >> allowing developers to ad

Re: more OSGI thoughts? brian?

2008-09-11 Thread Jeromy Evans
Are you still out there Brian? Did you put any thought into something like this for JCatapult modules within S2? Jeromy Evans wrote: Has anyone given any more thought to an OSGI container embedded within Struts2? I ask because I growing to hate having to build and deploy entire war files an

Re: more OSGI thoughts?

2008-09-11 Thread Jeromy Evans
Don Brown wrote: The Atlassian plugin system has been in Atlassian products for years, allowing developers to add new features to Atlassian applications dynamically in some cases (Confluence). However, the two main problems with it were: Cool. I'm impressed you guys are allowed to be open abo

Re: more OSGI thoughts?

2008-09-11 Thread Don Brown
The Atlassian plugin system has been in Atlassian products for years, allowing developers to add new features to Atlassian applications dynamically in some cases (Confluence). However, the two main problems with it were: * No defined boundary between the application and plugins, causing plugins to

Re: more OSGI thoughts?

2008-09-11 Thread Jeromy Evans
Thanks for the update. Is the purpose of the plugin system to make it easier for administrators to bring plugins into their deployment at run-time, or more about minimising conflicts between plugin versions? And are you pulling plugins from a repository (eg. browse and select compatible versi

Re: more OSGI thoughts?

2008-09-11 Thread Don Brown
The latest status is I built a plugin system around OSGi for Atlassian and it is in the process of being rolled out. Basically, it utilizes a hybrid approach where the main webapp is a normal webapp, but plugins can be installed on it dynamically via OSGi. I have the OK to open source it, but I w

more OSGI thoughts?

2008-09-11 Thread Jeromy Evans
Has anyone given any more thought to an OSGI container embedded within Struts2? I ask because I growing to hate having to build and deploy entire war files and regularly restart Containers. It seems far behind alternative technologies. Is it conceivable that: - the container provides the in