[jboss-as7-dev] Fwd: Re: OSGi subsystem dependencies

[Jason T. Greene]

On 11/30/10 1:37 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> Comments inline.
>>
>> So if the OSGi service registry is the standard view of the MSC service
>> registry, It should readily be available whenever you want to publish a
>> service in a standard way.
>>
>>     From my perspective #2 would be a bad choice for the same reason that
>> you want to keep the MSC service registry generic (i.e. it does not know
>> about any specific service)
>
> #2 doesn't mean that the OSGi service registry has any special knowledge
> of the service - it just means that in addition to setting up the OSGi
> service registry, the subsystem (not the registry itself) also populates
> it with known services.

Right, but the subsystem would also have to have at least a bunch of 
optional module deps. If they are optional then you would have to have 
some kind of reflection discovery stuff.

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Jason T. Greene
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