[jboss-dev] Re: JBossOSGi - First Release

[Jason T. Greene]

I was referring to the ability to run OSGi services on AS, not run AS on 
OSGi. The problem with the latter is that OSGi is a limited subset of 
what the MC can do, so doesn't meet the needs of AS.

Trustin Lee wrote:
> This is very interesting.  So.. are we going to make JBossAS run both
> on JBossMC and on OSGi framework like Felix and Equinox?  Sounds very
> attractive to me.
> 
> — Trustin Lee, http://gleamynode.net/
> 
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Jason T. Greene
> <jason.greene at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Adrian posted a good response that I think highlights the direction we
>> should be going. Namely that we do not require OSGi metadata for a JBoss
>> Service to be exposed as an OSGi service. However, we also should support
>> the ability to deploy components that are written as pure OSGi services.
>>
>> Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>>> Why do you want to migrate JBoss services to OSGi bundles exactly?
>>> Sounds useless, we already have them MicroContained
>>>
>>>  From what you've written it seems that you are replacing the MC runtime
>>> with the felix runtime and to do that you need osgi bundles from JBoss
>>> services.
>>>
>>> On  Mar 30, 2009, at 10:32, Thomas Diesler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Bill,
>>>>
>>>> I answered here
>>>>
>>>> http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4222021#4222021
>>>>
>>>> -thomas
>>>>
>>>> Bill Burke wrote:
>>>>> translation:
>>>>> Why do we need Felix?  Not who is felix lol...
>>>>> Bill Burke wrote:
>>>>>> Who do we need Felix?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thomas Diesler wrote:
>>>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am happy to announce the release of JBossOSGi-1.0.0.Alpha3.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://jbossosgi.blogspot.com/2009/03/jbossosgi-first-release.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>>> -thomas
>>>>>>>
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>> Jason T. Greene
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