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good articleevden eve

kardelen133 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:00:41 -0400

good article

btw, I might also add that

ian skerrett — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:36:24 -0500

btw, I might also add that if people are interested in learning more about OSGi, OSGi DevCon is being held in conjunction with EclipseCon, on March 17-20 in Santa Clara.

I had a short look at one of

rainwebs — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:30:16 -0500

I had a short look at one of the first pre-releases of Spring Modules some month ago. At that time it was not possible to modularize a Web application. I'm searching for a solution to create reusable parts inside a WAR file, so that JSF pages plus their backing beans are pluggable. Did you heard of any development in this area?

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The bottom line is I need a

sarbogast — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:25:56 -0500

The bottom line is I need a platform that I can start up on my server machine and where I can deploy bundles exposing servlets, webservices and so on.

Now what's for sure is that this OSGi stuff really changes the way we are used to think about application servers. For example, Apache Felix comes both as a standalone app or as a module that you can embed in an existing server.

And what I really expect SpringSource, Covalent and Tomcat to do, is to coordinate with OSGi enterprise expert group to define "the new way to think about java application servers". A bit like what JonAS has already done, but with some documentation !

Am I getting this wrong, or

Denis Baranov — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:25:37 -0500

Am I getting this wrong, or is it really that you want this turned inside out? You want Tomcat to be an OSGi container rather than a module that could be used in OSGi container? Could somebody explain which is right/wrong/sensible?

While there may be no Tomcat

irbull — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:20:21 -0500

While there may be no Tomcat for OSGi, there is a Jetty bundle which works really well! I use OSGi / Jetty and GWT for pretty cool websever stack!.

>> For me it was just some

mostlyharmless — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:48:49 -0500

>> For me it was just some obscure standard Eclipse was running
>> on and since I don't like Eclipse, I didn't like OSGi either.

Thats funny. Those were my thoughts at first too.

This is a great idea; even

ian skerrett — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:34:13 -0500

This is a great idea; even though you don't like Eclipse :-)

btw, there were two other articles about OSGI that I thought were interesting: 1) Universal Middleware: What's Happening With OSGi and Why You Should Care and 2) Stackless Stack and the rise of OSGi;

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