Jigsaw and OSGi interop

[Tim Ellison]

On 06/10/2011 15:15, Alan Bateman wrote:
> Tim Ellison wrote:
>> :
>> As I said, I'm coming with no fixed ideas or agenda for the project,
>> just a desire to see the interop work well.  Everyone's input is
>> welcomed.
>>   
> My guess is that this project will require, as its starting point, an
> OSGi kernel that can be modified to first run as a module and then
> updated to be able to resolve modules that are installed in the module
> library. In that case, it may actually be a project that is (at least
> initially) downstream from an OSGi project like Apache Felix rather than
> an OpenJDK project. This is just a guess of course because there isn't
> an OSGi implementation/project in OpenJDK to work on.

Yes, I agree.  It makes sense for the prototyping to be done based on an
existing OSGi implementation, and the current Jigsaw implementation.
Once we figure out what needs to be modified to achieve the goals then
we can use that experience to inform the implementers/spec writers as
appropriate.

Regards,
Tim