Hi Marcel,
Not mentioning ACE was an oversight. I think there are two potential
roles for ACE in relation Aries:
1. To distribute and configure the runtime components (those
implementing the enterprise OSGi application programming model).
2. To distribute and configure enterprise OSGi
Having read all the discussions, I still have concerns about the
suggestion to put all OSGi spec implementation under Felix. I don't
see this approach being taken for other specification organizations
(JCP, OASIS, etc.) and I think that is to the benefit of Apache. For
example, whilst a goal of
I think it's important that Aries have its own identity independent
from a particular framework implementation (e.g. Felix or Equinox) or
Kernel (e.g. Karaf, Geronimo, etc.). Independence (both technical and
perception) will help make it equally consumable in each and increase
the likelihood of it