[infinispan-dev] help with Infinispan OSGi

[Randall Hauch]

Brett, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a difference in making some library *work* in an OSGi environment and making that library *naturally fit well* in an OSGi-enabled application? For example, making the JAR’s be OSGi bundles is easy and technically makes it possible to deploy a JAR into an OSGi env, but that’s not where the payoff is. IIUC what you really want is a BundleActivator or Declarative Services [1] so that the library’s components are readily available in a naturally-OSGi way.

[1] http://blog.knowhowlab.org/2010/10/osgi-tutorial-4-ways-to-activate-code.html

On Dec 6, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Mircea Markus <mmarkus at redhat.com> wrote:

> + infinispan-dev
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> Thanks for offering to look into this Brett!
> We're already producing OSGi bundles for our modules, but these are not tested extensively so if you'd review them and test them a bit would be great!
> Tristan can get you up to speed with this.
> 
> 
>>> Sanne/Galder/Pete,
>>> 
>>> Random question: what's the current state of making Infinispan OSGi friendly?  I'm definitely interested in helping, if it's still a need.  This past year, I went through the exercise of making Hibernate work well in OSGi, so all of challenges (read: *many* of them) are still fairly fresh on my mind.  Plus, I'd love for hibernate-infinispan to work in OSGi.
>>> 
>>> If you're up for it, fill me in?  I'm happy to pull everything down and start working with it.
>>> 
>>> Brett Meyer
>>> Software Engineer
>>> Red Hat, Hibernate ORM
>>> 
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> Cheers,
> -- 
> Mircea Markus
> Infinispan lead (www.infinispan.org)
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