[Yanel-dev] HOW TO KILL AN OSGI PROJECT - WITH 10 QUESTIONS

[Michael Wechner]

Am 19.07.11 15:37, schrieb basZero:
> It is certainly worth to get into the modularity details of Java SE7, 
> which has been launched last week. Maybe that covers already a bunch 
> of Yanel requirements...

do you mean something like

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/modules/

as an alternative to OSGi?

Thanks

Michael
>
> btw: tomorrow at Technopark Zurich is a JUGS JavaSE7 Launch Event, 
> I'll go there definitely.
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Michael Wechner 
> <michael.wechner at wyona.com <mailto:michael.wechner at wyona.com>> wrote:
>
>     Am 12.07.11 21:55, schrieb basZero:
>
>         fyi
>
>         a bit of reading, other thoughts, some stimuli to maybe judge
>         whether OSGi is really something for Yanel...
>         http://www.adam-bien.com/roller/abien/entry/how_to_kill_an_osgi
>
>
>     I think the principles of OSGi are definitely for Yanel, whereas I
>     think this is nicely expressed by Stefan Bohm's comment:
>
>     "OSGi because it forces us to consider design-aspects such as
>     modularity, life-cycle management and versioning (which is not a
>     bad thing ;-). On the other hand, I don't think that dynamicity is
>     really a major driver for OSGi. Quite the contrary, enterprise
>     environments have to be stable and deterministic."
>
>     Also related to that:
>
>     http://www.osgi.org/blog/2010/01/backward-compatibility.html
>
>     By using versioned interfaces Yanel does enforce such principles,
>     but the problem I see is that Yanel's way
>     of doing it is not a "standard", whereas OSGi is a "standard" (or
>     at least one does consider it a standard), which means the
>     learning curve for developers and sitting on top of shoulders
>     would help ;-)
>
>     It's still not clear to me if OSGi is the right thing from a
>     "technical" point of view and what if there might come up
>     something better than OSGi? I think these are the questions we
>     should ask ourselves additionally to the ones mentioned in the
>     link above.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Michael
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