[Yanel-dev] Getting started with OSGi

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A clear vote for 1) too from my side.


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On 09.03.2011, at 13:34, Michael Wechner <michael.wechner at wyona.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have a feeling that it makes sense to have a closer look at OSGi.
> 
> Whereas there seem to be two possibilities to run an OSGi runtime
> 
> 1) Java -> Tomcat/Jetty -> Servlet -> OSGi runtime (e.g. Apache Felix)
> 
> 2) Java ->OSGi runtime -> "Servlet"
> 
> but for backwards compatibility and in order to run within a clustered environment I would
> argue that (1) is our choice. Also see
> 
> http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/embedding-osgi-tomcat
> http://css.dzone.com/articles/osgi-and-servlets-can-work
> http://sling.apache.org/site/discover-sling-in-15-minutes.html
> http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/deploying/configuring_osgi.html
> http://www.osgi.org/Download/File?url=/download/r4v42/r4.enterprise.pdf (section 128)
> 
> Another question is what do we consider an OSGi bundle. I have discussed this with Marc
> offline and he suggests to start with considering a resource as a "bundle" and Yanel itself as "bundle".
> To get started one might want to have a look at
> 
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2008/jw-03-osgi1.html
> http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-osgi-tutorial.html
> 
> Re dynamic loading of third party resource types/bundles (e.g. Simon's Slideshow/Gallery) from other servers/domains, Marc thinks it makes more sense to do this by ourselves (e.g. Ant-Maven) than via OSGi (whereas it would/should also be possible by OSGi).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Michael
> 
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