[jboss-dev] OSGi removed from 'all' profile

[Jason T. Greene]

Rémy Maucherat wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Rémy Maucherat
> <remy.maucherat at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It seems you would have to write a deployer similar to the classic WAR
>> deployer, and find a resource to do it (ie, not me). The current
>> servlet container should now be more appropriate than Jetty in all
>> cases, since it uses JBoss metadata (for Servlet & JSP), which means
>> better integration.
> 
> Any comments ?
> 
> As far as I am concerned, there are 3 issues with OSGI as it is
> proposed right now for AS:
> - Speed
> - Outdated Servlet 2.5 support (shipping that in 2010 is really a
> disgrace, and makes it unusable); nothing we can really do about it,
> though :(
> - Uses a web component we cannot support
> 
> If at least the third item is not fixed by AS 6 GA, I think inclusion
> in this release cycle should be reconsidered.

It definitely will not be part of our main profiles, and remain as 
"experimental" if these issues are not resolved.

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Jason T. Greene
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