Re: Sandbox OSGi runtime

[Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com>]

2010/4/4 Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>

>
> +1.  I think there is a (slowly?) growing interest in OSGi - see, for
> instance, the latest info in the apache felix project [1] and in
> particular, the newer, possibly unreleased subprojects [2].  There are
> efforts there in the Apache Felix Commons subproject  [3] to do more or
> less what you are trying to do here - it would be good to confirm these
> approaches are aligned :-).


2010/4/21 Tommaso Teofili <to...@gmail.com>

> 2010/4/14 Jörn Kottmann <ko...@gmail.com>
>
>>
>> In my opinion we shouldn't advertise OSGi support since key features
>> of UIMA cannot be used flawlessly in an OSGi environment right now.
>>
>>
> Hi,
> I would like to wait for new (parent) POMs as Marshall is working on them
> and then put sandbox annotators bundles POMs with new "parents" inside a
> separate project in the sandbox so that the community can start looking at
> and using them.
> Jorn, do you already have in mind which features could be difficult to use
> in an OSGi environment and why?
> Do you think we should wait before we get in touch with Felix Commons to
> advertise our effort on OSGi?
> Cheers.
> Tommaso
>

I think it's time to have this work on the Sandbox so that we can "play"
with it, without advertising OSGi support but starting to actually face
issues (if any) ;-)
What do you think?
Cheers,
Tommaso