You should probably add this to an FAQ somewhere.
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
Neeme Praks skrev:
Hi,
In spring of 2006 there was some heavy discussion going on about
implementing OSGi based blocks system and refactoring things to use
Spring container instead of ECM.
After that, things seem to have become very quiet.
Last e-mail I see on the list is about the OSGi subject is from the
beginning of September, 2006. After that - total silence.
JIRA is just as quiet:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1826
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1827
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1829
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1830
Can someone shed some light on the status of OSGi integration in Cocoon?
Although there are many people involved in Cocoon we are just a few
who work on the core and basic infrastructure. And we where spreading
ourselves to thin in the project by both working on moving to Spring,
moving to Maven and using OSGi at the same time. So we decided to
focus on Spring, Maven and getting a release of 2.2 before continuing
the work on moving to OSGi.
Also it was a quite large work to integrate Spring and OSGi. And when
we saw that a project doing that started within the Spring community
with some OSGi heavyweights involved, it seemed like a better idea to
stop our own development in that area and either join them or being
lazy and wait for them to deliver something ;)
It would be much simpler to move Cocoon to OSGi today as we have
simplified the core considerably and there is much more support for
using OSGi in enterprise software projects now.
So what is your interest in it? Would you like to use a OSGi based
Cocoon or do you feel that it would be fun working on creating it :)
/Daniel
