> I share your concern about OSGI and hype :-) As a regular Eclipse user, I like OSGI, but from the plugin altitude.
> I spent few years working on a project using OSGI heavily, with people > buying the hype. It was a big disaster, most time was spent > reinventing the wheels and turning perfectly simple code to services, > registering the services in a bundle and importing it in another, then > figuring out why it's slow to start up or start order problems or > manifests. Could we say that today OSGI is more mature and stable, ie Equinox or Felix ? > On the other side - OSGI has a good class loader implementation, > probably the best ( JBoss has a good one too - using a similar > delegation mechanism ). And OSGI help modularity > As long as you stick to using the class loader - i.e. have manifests > with imports/exports and the boilerplate - OSGI can be a benefit. > Since IMO the main problem in tomcat is lack of modularity - it > wouldn't be bad to give it a try. A big +1. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
