Updates on Interoperability

[Sam Pullara]

Can you send out what our roadmap might look like so that we can  
understand what needs to be done to get this into JDK 7?

Sam

On Apr 2, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Stanley M. Ho wrote:

> Hi experts,
>
> As we discussed in the EG, we would like to make JSR 277  
> interoperable with other module systems (e.g. OSGi, NetBeans, etc.).  
> We have been building prototypings to figure out how it should work  
> and to also validate the overall approach. Since there are many  
> module systems out there and they are all implemented very  
> differently (there are also multiple OSGi implementations), it  
> requires us to build more than a few prototypes and the whole  
> process takes time.
>
> The good news is that we now have a prototype that allows JSR 277  
> modules to interoperate with OSGi bundles in certain degrees, and  
> another prototype that enables interoperation with Maven. I'm in the  
> process of sorting out the details with the development team so we  
> could have a strawman for this EG to discuss soon.
>
> - Stanley