Penrose next steps

[David Bosschaert]

Hi all,

Now that we support module info in JSON format in Penrose, I think it
would be good to start migrating the Penrose demos to support this
format.

The Penrose tree (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/penrose/penrose)
currently consists of 3 demos:
* classloader
* java2d
* modulebrowser
The java2d one is the interesting one here as it currently both
contains Jigsaw module-info.java and OSGi META-INF.MF files. I think
we should merge them into a single module-info.json file which
contains both the JavaSE and the OSGi metadata.

I'd be happy to help with migrating the classloader and modulebrowser
ones, but for the java2d one to be successful we need to modify an
OSGi framework so that it can read the module-info.json file. I think
the idea of modifying an existing OSGi framework was already discussed
during the creation of Project Penrose and if I remember things
correctly it was suggested at the time to do this work on an Equinox
branch. It would be great if someone from the Equinox side of things
could look at that part of the story.

Thoughts anyone?

Best regards,

David