Looking at Plexus

[robert.egan]

I am designing a component based application. It will be a container that will selectively perform operations on the components within it. The components within the container will have some dependencies on each other (none circular) and some dependencies on external components. The dependencies will control some, but not all, aspects of component behavior. The components within the container will all be built by Maven, while the external components may be developed by anyone (most likely not using Maven or Ant).

Plexus appears to be the ideal container for this application, based on what I have read so far, but there is one caveat to the design that might make plexus unusable. The application  will have to run on machines without internet connectivity. Is this a show stopper, or is it possible to bundle everything needed within the application?


Regards,
Robert Egan


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[Jason van Zyl-2]

You could definitely bundle everything plexus needs. It doesn't  
require a network connection.

Also know that I am in the process of merging (albeit very slowly)  
with XBean and Pico. This work will happen at Apache.

On 17-Mar-08, at 6:15 AM, robert.egan@... wrote:

>
> I am designing a component based application. It will be a container  
> that will selectively perform operations on the components within  
> it. The components within the container will have some dependencies  
> on each other (none circular) and some dependencies on external  
> components. The dependencies will control some, but not all, aspects  
> of component behavior. The components within the container will all  
> be built by Maven, while the external components may be developed by  
> anyone (most likely not using Maven or Ant).
>
> Plexus appears to be the ideal container for this application, based  
> on what I have read so far, but there is one caveat to the design  
> that might make plexus unusable. The application  will have to run  
> on machines without internet connectivity. Is this a show stopper,  
> or is it possible to bundle everything needed within the application?
>
>
> Regards,
> Robert Egan
>
>
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Thanks,

Jason

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[robert.egan]

There's no particular rush from my end, but I suppose I'll need to acquiant myself with XBean and Pico as well, so that our design stays flexible enough to adapt when the time comes.


Thanks,
Robert Egan

Jason van Zyl <jason@...> wrote on 03/17/2008 12:03:00 PM:

> You could definitely bundle everything plexus needs. It doesn't  
> require a network connection.
>
> Also know that I am in the process of merging (albeit very slowly)  
> with XBean and Pico. This work will happen at Apache.
>
> On 17-Mar-08, at 6:15 AM, robert.egan@... wrote:
>
> >
> > I am designing a component based application. It will be a container  
> > that will selectively perform operations on the components within  
> > it. The components within the container will have some dependencies  
> > on each other (none circular) and some dependencies on external  
> > components. The dependencies will control some, but not all, aspects  
> > of component behavior. The components within the container will all  
> > be built by Maven, while the external components may be developed by  
> > anyone (most likely not using Maven or Ant).
> >
> > Plexus appears to be the ideal container for this application, based  
> > on what I have read so far, but there is one caveat to the design  
> > that might make plexus unusable. The application  will have to run  
> > on machines without internet connectivity. Is this a show stopper,  
> > or is it possible to bundle everything needed within the application?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Robert Egan
> >
> >
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