Penrose next steps

[Shi Jun Zhang]

On 6/25/2012 7:14 PM, David Bosschaert wrote:
> 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
>
Hi David,

Good point. Actually migrating the demos to support JSON format is 
already on my todo list. I can work on it.

Currently I think there is no one from Equinox side on this mailing 
list. We need to wait for penrose discuss mailing list being setup and 
then we can discuss on that mailing list.

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Regards,

Shi Jun Zhang