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Christophe Ney wrote:
A smart person pointed out to me that things are moving on J2EE and OSGi convergence.Will Geronimo be the first?
Excerpt from one of the mails:"It will be a bi-directional integration, so OSGi bundles will be able to see geronimo services and geronimo services will be able to see bundles (and services in bundles). Using your terminology it will be a container."
Looks like what Mikaël Desertot and Didier Donsez are prototyping with JOnAS ? To my understanding, they try at least to deploy JOnAS services as OSGi bundles - thus embedding an OSGi platform in the app server, as well. If so, it is even better integration that what the Geronimo guys envisage (OSGI bundles and Geronimo services should somewhat "see each other", although JOnAS services might be OSGi bundles ?).
I don't know what is the position of the JOnAS team regarding this, but I think we have a kind of "Fractal vs OSGi" issue at OW (although I'm not sure both approaches address the same problem, and I'm not even sure they are uncompatible).
Mikaël, Didier, and François Exertier probably have a more accurate understanding of all this than I can have myself, but I think OSGi can bring back some architectural consistency in the OW projects... (although I agree it's quite a bit late, Oscar has gone now).
It's time for discussions and clear choices, because the future of JOnAS will be dramatically affected by what we decide these days.
Regards, Pierre-Yves Gibello - ExperLog
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