Re: [osgi-dev] requirements capabilities and resolver for general purpose provisioning

2017-03-15 Thread Peter Kriens
The design of the capability model has always been with more in mind than OSGi … Clearly the underlying model allows you to model a lot of things. The only thing that might be missing is an evaluation function that could grade solutions. In the OSGi context any solution is ok since there is no c

Re: [osgi-dev] requirements capabilities and resolver for general purpose provisioning

2017-03-15 Thread Mike Francis
Milen The Paremus Service Fabric has always leveraged the OSGi Requirements / Capabilities model. We were doing this with the Service Fabric well before R5, using our own resolver, called Nimble. Then, and still today, the Service Fabric uses the OSGi Requirements / Capabilities model to descri

Re: [osgi-dev] requirements capabilities and resolver for general purpose provisioning

2017-03-15 Thread Łukasz Dywicki
Hey Milen, Yes, there attempts to use it and we are using it for example in Karaf under the hood. Feature descriptors which are using latest namespaces are backed by osgi resolver. Also eclipse-smarthome and openhab2 are using explicitly these to loosely couple provider/consumer features and del

[osgi-dev] requirements capabilities and resolver for general purpose provisioning

2017-03-15 Thread Milen Dyankov
Hi all, Is anyone aware of any attempt to use the requirements&capabilities, repositories and resolver specs for anything other than provisioning OSGi runtime? It seams to me the specs are generic enough to be used in other scenarios. One example that comes to my mind is provisioning a telecommun