Re: State of the project

On 25/03/11 07:46, Christoph Jahn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently looking into appropriate tools to support configuration management and deployment for a large distributed application. SmartFrog looks like a pretty good candidate and I am looking forward to exploring it in more detail. Before I go and recommend it to colleagues, can someone please give a short overview about its current state (or point me at the right URL). My impression so far is that it's in a state of being used and developed actively but not by too many people. Are there any significant contributions from non-HP folks? What products and projects (HP and non-HP) make use of it and for what specific purpose?
>
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Christoph

It's there, it's being used internally and by some people outside HP, as 
well as hidden deep in internal products.

There is a big patch waiting to go in -Julio, are you listening? - to 
add an OSGi classloader. Once he's done the merge, we plan to flip the 
headers from LGPL to Apache licenses and release as apache code. We are 
behind on the merge, and I would like it myself, but don't have the time to.

Once that merge goes in Smartfrog 4.x will ship.

Most of the work is from the HP team, we do have a weaker community than 
others. However that very fact does give us the ability to switch the 
license, there's only a couple of separate modules where we will stay on 
LGPL, just because of third party code in them. Otherwise, people 
contribute bugs and feature requests, I get to fix them.


-Steve

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