On 5/11/11 4:55 PM, Alex Karasulu wrote:
> The plugin bundles do not contain any services. The activators of the plugin
> bundles simply register classes in the plugin bundle with the main service
> exported by the host application: the codec factory service.
>
> Looking at this big fat mess a good rule of thumb is starting to emerge:
>
> Do not embed OSGi containers in APIs, because you cannot be sure of the
> environments in which that API will be used.
>
> The best way to proceed would be to expose a means
> to programmatically register new extension components with the API, and
> leave the mechanism to load and register the plugin components outside the
> API to be handled by some other component.
>
> Thoughts?

At this point, we need to setup our mind. If OSGi is a burden for the 
API, then let's just use classloaders instead.


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Emmanuel Lécharny
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