Remy Maucherat wrote:
Henri Gomez wrote:
May be not related, but did there is plan in TC 6.x to make use at
some time OSGI framework, like the one used in Eclipse and RCP
applications ?
I really like this concept and it seems a good candidate to provide a
modular kernel / micro-architecture.
If we do that, what doesn't make it a Geronimo clone ? The services
that are shipped by default, maybe ? ;)
It also most likely make Tomcat more heavyweight, although I don't
know whether or not it would make it more difficult to integrate.
As someone who really wants to integrate Tomcat into a larger
application soon (I had a working prototype for a while), I really don't
want Eclipse or its RCP -- or anything of the sort -- in Tomcat.
I like the fact that Tomcat is still relatively lightweight and brings
relatively few extra libraries and version conflicts thereof into the
picture. As long as I keep a few of the Apache libraries I use
up-to-date, all is well (and probably would be otherwise -- it's just
really easy to remove any possible issues by version matching).
Future NetBeans versions may cease to embed Tomcat and embed the whole
Glassfish thing instead, I don't know, but the embedding of Tomcat in
current NetBeans releases is a perfect example of why no IDE's faddish
RCP (Eclipse's, NetBeans', or new-sprocket-fad-xyz) should not make its
way into Tomcat.
[Sorry for any cynicism, but I've seen a rash of "wouldn't our simple,
lightweight open source component X be oh so much better if we just
stuck in an entire IDE framework underneath" knee jerks in open source
communities ranging as far afield as jManage. Let's K.I.S.S!]
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Jess Holle
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