Re: [forge-dev] Forge 2.0 and OSGi

> Hi Paul ! > > I watched your presentation and I found it very nice. As in Forge 2.0, we are totally rewriting the core, so full backward compatibility shouldn't be possible in a first glance. > > Lincoln already started something in the 2.0 branch using JBoss Modules and also started to hack it a little deeper. > > As for me, I am also not a big fan of JBM, probably because it may be lacking some reference docs, which leads to deep diving into the code itself to better understand it. > > In terms of being future-proof, OSGi might sound a better path to go. However I am afraid that we may be wanting to kill a mosquito with a cannon, or in other words, trying to cram a technology which may hinder the adoption on Forge in future versions. > > In case we adopt it, I hope that in the future this bnd plugin could be part of JBoss Tools and we could call it "Forge Developer Platform" or something :)