[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-5920) OSGi feature provisioning service

[Mickael Istria (JIRA)]

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Mickael Istria commented on AS7-5920:
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Doesn't R5 provide all the necessary metadata to handle transitive installation of bundles? Eclipse does that with p2, but I've been told by some OSGi people at EclipseCon Europe that R5 and p2 were kinds of competitors on this topic.
For more info about how p2 could handle R5, see this ticket: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=393648
When it comes to build time for OSGi, have you considered usage/extension of Tycho? Tycho relies on content from MANIFEST.MF to define dependencies, and uses p2 to resolve and fetch dependencies. After a quick chat at EclipseCon with some Tycho committers, we agreed that it would be possible to handle other repositories kind than p2, this could include R5 repositories.

So this feature may have a dependency on JBOSGI-616
                
> OSGi feature provisioning service
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>                 Key: AS7-5920
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-5920
>             Project: Application Server 7
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: OSGi
>            Reporter: Thomas Diesler
>            Assignee: Thomas Diesler
>             Fix For: 7.2.0.CR1
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> It should be possible to provision the server with a set of capabilities similar to Eclipse plugin installation. For this we need to prime the Repository with the caps/reqs associated with the resources that are already available in the Runtime. The resolver needs to do impact analysis based on a snapshot of caps in the environment. Finally, the resources coming from the repository can be deployed. This functionality could be the foundation to do this at build time such that even subsystems can be layered on a basic Core Runtime.
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