Also see this link to better understand what I mean by embedded Felix/OSGi:
http://felix.apache.org/site/launching-and-embedding-apache-felix.html#LaunchingandEmbeddingApacheFelix-embedding
> Embedding Felix into a host application is a simple way to provide a
> sophisticated extensibility mechanism (i.e., plugin system) to the
> host application.
Ryan de Laplante wrote:
> I haven't put much thought into a design yet, but I'll give you a
> general idea. JIRA can be thought of a base platform with plugin
> infrastructure, and the system is composed of a bunch of plugins.
> Confluence has plugins. Hudson has plugins. I want to create a web
> application that has a few basic things like authorization and
> authentication, a plugin system, plugin manager, etc. then build the
> rest of the application as plugin modules.
> I'm currently reading a book called Practical API Design (by the
> original creator of NetBeans) and it talks about how the NetBeans
> module system is created. The concepts seem similar to OSGi, and I
> would prefer to embed an OSGi container than write my own
> lookup/injection etc. I've only done some preliminary reading and
> listened to some podcasts. I don't know that much about OSGi yet.
>
>
> Other web developers have traditionally based their plugin system's UI
> support on things like velocity, or WebWork/Struts2 "plugin" feature.
> Later I want to study GlassFish V3 and figure out how they did it with
> JSFTemplating, HK2 and OSGi.
>
> See this thread for an earlier discussion:
>
> http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5261696&messageID=10107837
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>
>
>
> Sahoo wrote:
>> Ryan,
>>
>> Can you please elaborate what you plan to do, especially what you
>> mean by embedded Felix/OSGi?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sahoo
>>
>> Ryan de Laplante wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This blog entry gave me the impression that HK2 was going to be the
>>> reference implementation for JSR 277, and that is why GlassFish V3
>>> was using it:
>>>
>>> http://www.xlml.com/aehso/2007/05/15/glassfish-v3-hk2-modules/
>>>
>>> But later GlassFish V3 chose OSGi. I know it uses a hybrid approach
>>> of HK2 + OSGi:
>>>
>>> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ss141213/archive/2008/04/glassfish_v3_on.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if HK2 is not going to be an implementation of JSR
>>> 277, and of OSGi is going to become the foundation of JSR 277? I
>>> don't really know much about any of these technologies yet but am
>>> starting to investigate them. I want to create a plugin system for
>>> a web application such as what you find in Hudson, JIRA, Confluence,
>>> etc. I've seen things such as Apache Cocoon but it uses Spring. I
>>> want Java EE purity and will be basing my design on Java EE 6 +
>>> GlassFish V3. Currently I'm thinking about using embedded Felix/OSGi.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ryan
>
>
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