I'm cc'ing the ops4j list, as they are the ones so far driving Wicket integration with OSGi.
Comments below. On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 08:45 -0800, Eelco Hillenius wrote: > > It would be cool if Wicket came with OSGi support itself. ;-) > > Indeed, and we'd be happy to have Wicket support it better if we get > good suggestions :) If you have any, please submit. Essentially, the OSGi standard provides for an HttpService. In practice, it is (or at least can be) implemented with Jetty. However, the exposed interface is a little different. http://www.knopflerfish.org/releases/1.3.2/javadoc/org/osgi/service/http/HttpService.html In my case, what I'm doing currently is not so different from what is posted here: http://wiki.ops4j.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=pax:wicket However, it seems to me that it may not be such a bad idea for Wicket to use the HttpService interface internally instead of directly using the Jetty API, even if Wicket does not use OSGi. It may be a bit more flexible, as the implementation could be changed later, not to mention that OSGi support would be pretty much automatic. But that's not really an important point. The REALLY cool feature that would be like a dream come true for me would be the ability to reuse panels and other components as reusable OSGi bundles. Currently, each application is a separate bundle and must include all the resources, so resources are packages multiple times, one for each of the bundles that use them. In the spirit of "once and only once", it would be great to have only one bundle per component, or maybe one resource bundle that contains the components, or whatever. Unfortunately, though, I don't know the internals of either Wicket or OSGi well enough to give you any useful suggestions. I'm only a power user. ;-) Please let me know if I can provide you with any additional info. I'd also be glad to chip into this endeavour if it does go forward. Cheers, Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
