Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-06 Thread Graham Charters
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

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-04 Thread Graham Charters
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

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache Aries incubator for Enterprise OSGi

2009-09-03 Thread Graham Charters
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