I will submit the code through JIRA once it is ready. If there is already documentation about the Tuscany SPIs, I would like to use it, otherwise, the samples and the Java implementation seem to be quite useful to get started.
OSGi doesn't provide a standard mechanism to start a new runtime, and different implementations use different classes and methods to start up the console. It would have been nice if the FrameworkAdmin service could be used to start up an OSGi runtime within the current VM, but since that doesn't seem possible, we have to rely on dynamically loading up the runtime that is available on the classpath. Equinox has a static method EclipseStarter.startup() which can be used to start a single OSGi runtime in a VM. Apache Felix can be started using new Felix.start(properties, activatorList) which is neater. Knoplerfish runtime can be started using new Framework().launch(). So I think we can get around the fact that there is no standard way to embed a OSGi runtime. We haven't addressed the third aspect that Raymond mentioned (using OSGi as the underlying technology for SCA containers), so it is very useful to know that Bill is already working on it. Since this is orthogonal to the work we are doing, the two can go on in parallel, and yes, it will be good to have subdirectories under contrib for the three so that the code can be shared. Thank you.... Regards, Rajini
