Karaf based runtime?

[ant elder <an...@gmail.com>]

I had a play around with Karaf (http://karaf.apache.org) over the
weekend and was wondering if we should look at having a Tuscany
runtime based on it. Karaf is an OSGi based container that bundles up
a set of useful things to create a server and its used by things like
Geronimo and ServiceMix, and it has things like Aries running in it
already. Its management console looks really good and can be accessed
in a variety of ways including from a browser. We already have a lot
of Tuscany code and support for OSGi but we don't show actually using
that for much useful so having a Karaf based runtime would help do
that and could be quite compelling i think. It would help validate and
show hwo to use Tuscany in other OSGi based environments too which
would be good. I'm not sure how much time i'd have to do this by
myself though so wondered if anyone else would be interested in this
and helping out?

   ...ant

Re: Karaf based runtime?

[ant elder <an...@apache.org>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Simon Laws <si...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:43 AM, ant elder <an...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I had a play around with Karaf (http://karaf.apache.org) over the
>> weekend and was wondering if we should look at having a Tuscany
>> runtime based on it. Karaf is an OSGi based container that bundles up
>> a set of useful things to create a server and its used by things like
>> Geronimo and ServiceMix, and it has things like Aries running in it
>> already. Its management console looks really good and can be accessed
>> in a variety of ways including from a browser. We already have a lot
>> of Tuscany code and support for OSGi but we don't show actually using
>> that for much useful so having a Karaf based runtime would help do
>> that and could be quite compelling i think. It would help validate and
>> show hwo to use Tuscany in other OSGi based environments too which
>> would be good. I'm not sure how much time i'd have to do this by
>> myself though so wondered if anyone else would be interested in this
>> and helping out?
>>
>>   ...ant
>>
>
> The other thing that Karaf brings, IIRC, is a feature based deployment
> paradigm;-) A while back I made some progress with creating OBR
> descriptions for the distribution..  Haven't touched it for a while
> though but need to get back to it at some point.
>

Does that mean you might help with doing this?

   ...ant

Re: Karaf based runtime?

[Simon Laws <si...@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:43 AM, ant elder <an...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a play around with Karaf (http://karaf.apache.org) over the
> weekend and was wondering if we should look at having a Tuscany
> runtime based on it. Karaf is an OSGi based container that bundles up
> a set of useful things to create a server and its used by things like
> Geronimo and ServiceMix, and it has things like Aries running in it
> already. Its management console looks really good and can be accessed
> in a variety of ways including from a browser. We already have a lot
> of Tuscany code and support for OSGi but we don't show actually using
> that for much useful so having a Karaf based runtime would help do
> that and could be quite compelling i think. It would help validate and
> show hwo to use Tuscany in other OSGi based environments too which
> would be good. I'm not sure how much time i'd have to do this by
> myself though so wondered if anyone else would be interested in this
> and helping out?
>
>   ...ant
>

The other thing that Karaf brings, IIRC, is a feature based deployment
paradigm;-) A while back I made some progress with creating OBR
descriptions for the distribution..  Haven't touched it for a while
though but need to get back to it at some point.

Simon

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