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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:40:41 -0500
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Subject: Re: Porting Question
Cc: Clement Escoffier <clement.escoffier@gmail.com>
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Thanks, from what I have read so far iPOJO seems like a good fit.

-Pete

---- Clement Escoffier <clement.escoffier@gmail.com> wrote: 

=============
Hi,

On 09.02.2009, at 07:37, Pete Haidinyak wrote:

> Thanks for the help. I just printed out the iPOJO documentation and  
> will be going through it.

iPOJO can ease your development. I add some comments below.

>
>
> -Pete
>
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:34:27 -0800, Marcel Offermans <marcel.offermans@luminis.nl 
> > wrote:
>
>> A big question, let me have a go at providing some generic answers.  
>> I'm sure others will join in on this. :)
>>
>> On Feb 7, 2009, at 9:20 , Pete Haidinyak wrote:
>>
>>> 	Ok, enough of the background, my question is "What is the best  
>>> approach
>>> for Porting a JMX enabled Component to OSGi?" Currently the  
>>> Components
>>> send and receive 'Events/Message' using JMX (Publish/Subscribe).
>>
>> That maps nicely onto the Event Admin specification.

iPOJO provides a way to send and receive events with the Event Admin  
without managing the Event Admin interaction (see http://felix.apache.org/site/event-admin-handlers.html)


>>
>>
>>> They are
>>> also managed (stopped/started/unload/loaded/configuration changes,  
>>> etc.)
>>> using a JMX Console.
>>
>> If you make your beans map onto bundles, then those can be managed  
>> in the same way. We have a local shell, telnet and webconsole, and  
>> even a wrapper to expose bundles through JMX again.

iPOJO instances can also be exposed as MBean. In this case, they don't  
know that there are accessible remotely ... (http://felix.apache.org/site/ipojo-jmx-handler.html 
)

>>
>>
>>> I also will be running parts of the application
>>> outside of the OSGi container which will need access to components  
>>> running
>>> inside the OSGi container. Components running inside of the OSGi  
>>> contain
>>> will need access to resources that are in the classpath (created at
>>> startup).
>>


Regards,

Clement


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