Re: OSGi-ify JUnit / bug 2720888

I'm interested in having this discussion, but like Mike I'm a little puzzled as 
to the problem we're trying to solve. In addition to use cases, could someone 
provide some tests?

Big Steve.


Mike Forsberg wrote:
> I heard alot about OSGi as of late... many developers at work seem to be 
> behind it as a system. I will say that I've very little knowlege of the 
> subject.
> 
> However, from what I have seen/heard... OSGi is in the 
> interprocess/service communication space.  To that extent, I really 
> don't see how I'd ever want my tests framework to be exposed as a 
> service.  Maybe I'm wrong here, I'd love to hear arguments for it.
> 
> Could someone provide some simple use cases, where exposing JUnit as a 
> service would provide some value.
> 
> Big Mike
> 
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM, lukewpatterson <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     In bug 2720888 [1], David Saff recommended that I bring the
>     discussion to
>     this dev list.
> 
>     Please take a look at that bug to read the discussion so far...
>     basically,
>     I'm hoping that the current OSGi-ification work for JUnit can be
>     consolidated and brought into the core.
> 
>     I'm not trying to rush anyone to a decision.  Please provide any
>     comments/feedback and I'll try to work through solutions for any
>     objections.
> 
>     Since JUnit is a core dependency of so many projects, I believe that
>     OSGi-ification will have a beneficial ripple effect.  The barriers
>     to entry
>     will be lowered if the testing infrastructure is OSGi-ready.
> 
> 
>     Best Regards,
> 
>     Luke Patterson
> 
> 
>     [1]
>     http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2720888&group_id=15278&atid=365278
>     <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2720888&group_id=15278&atid=365278>
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