OSGi adds a lot of capabilities and functionality that we've had to hand-roll in the past (automatic
reload/restart via class loader magic, dependency resolution, etc.). It'd be nice to work with a
standard so we can get the more mature support and future improvements in that area "for free".
~~ Robert.
Hubert Chang wrote:
> JIRA-Grails-2221: To implement grails plugin system based on OSGI
>
> I think, for backward compatibility we should not rerestruct GRails.
>
> We should develop plugin - grails-osgi-plugin or grails-felix-plugin or
> grails-equinox-plugin to support OSGi.
>
>
> Now 1.2-SNAPSHOT will be released, but no OSGi support is avaible.
>
> Should we rerestruct GRails to be wholly different from the old release?
>
> Could we develop a plugin called grails-osgi or grails-felix or
> grails-equinox? Then we can make grails new release backward compatibility
> more easily. If we need a plugin depends on OSGi, we can install
> grails-osgi-plugin or grails-felix-plugin. If we do not need OSGi support,
> we can use old plugin system.
>
> Modulization and plugins-support is somewhat different.
>
> Any suggestions?
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