Project proposal: Penrose

[Tim Ellison]

On 5 January 2012 21:45, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 05/01/2012 19:54, Tim Ellison wrote:
>>
>> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], I'd like to start the
>> discussion of a new project to explore and implement interoperability
>> between the Jigsaw project and OSGi implementations.
>
> Tim - as I mentioned in the mail thread that you cited, I suspect this will
> require modifying an OSGi implementation. Is the thinking that the project
> would import an implementation to work on in conjunction with the Jigsaw
> code?

No, I don't expect to import or implement OSGi in the Penrose project,
rather we will work on a clone of Jigsaw to achieve the OSGi interop
and merge those changes back to Jigsaw once the objectives have been
achieved.

Furthermore we will work with OSGi implementers to advise, guide, and
put requirements on the Penrose changes --  and hopefully keep pace
with changes on the OSGi side too to ensure we have the full
end-to-end story working.

Penrose provides the OpenJDK side of the story, and a forum for
community discussion.

Regards,
Tim