On 8/24/07, Brian O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guillaume, > > Just getting grounded... > > Would SM 4.0 leverage Felix to get OSGi capabilities? > > I took a grep through the code, it doesn't look like it uses it at all > right now: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/dev/apache.org/servicemix-> grep -r "elix" * > and osgi appears only in the eclipse plugins. > > Just verifying, OSGi is a brand new dependency for SM, right? > > Which leads me to my second question, do you think the dependency > would be a hard dependency (on the actual felix impl), or would it be > implementation agnostic? (e.g. able to run on Equinox as well) > > I am going to pull felix now and start playing around with it.
The idea is to leverage the OSGi spec so that SMX can run on any OSGi compliant container. The first stab Guillaume and I took at experimenting with OSGi back in May was using Felix and we'd probably use Felix by default. But the idea is not to depend directly on the Felix implementation. Bruce -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)[EMAIL PROTECTED]&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );' Apache ActiveMQ - http://activemq.org/ Apache ServiceMix - http://servicemix.org/ Apache Geronimo - http://geronimo.apache.org/ Castor - http://castor.org/