Re: Jini vs/and OSGi
Calum Shaw-Mackay <[email protected]>
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Yes I think it is important to look at Newton and see what they are doing in this area, and possibly how an OSGi outlook on how we might solve the http dl-jar versioning problem may be of advantage to the Jini community --Calum On 14/03/07, Johnson, Brad <[email protected]> wrote: > I know of one product that is a combination of Jini and OSGi. Paremus > and the open source version Newton. > > Brad > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Jini vs/and OSGi > > Hello, > > Would anyone care to comment on where they see things heading with the > aforementioned specifications? There seems to be significant functional > overlap in current implementations. My impression is that OSGi is > gaining a lot of steam (mostly due to the huge success of the Eclipse > project, I suppose) and will probably be evolving to offer more and more > of what Jini does. While Jini/Javaspaces has also been in the news > recently, OSGi seems to be leading in developer/tool maker mindshare and > there is a lot of 'real' work done in terms of advancing the spec. This > article, written at the end of 2005, > http://www.osgi.org/blog/2005/11/why-did-we-let-jini-out-of-osgi-r4.html > doesn't doesn't make it sound very promising for Jini (viewed through > the subjective eyes of the OSGi Alliance at least). I'm curious why > there was no one (I'm thinking GigaSpaces or Dan C., for example) to > beat the drums for Jini to be at least kept in the "Recommended" section > of the OSGi spec. > > Would it make sense to think of a JavaSpace as an OSGi service instead > of a Jini one when and if OSGi evolves to provide service lookup across > a grid? Are the security/classloader issues mentioned in the article > areas that Jini will address in the near term? > > The following presentation talks about using OSGi and Jini together, so > not everyone seems to agree on where the future is headed for both > specs. > http://www.jini.org/wiki/10th_JCM_Sessions#Service_oriented_components_o > n_the_grid_using_OSGi_and_Jini > > > Enquiring minds want to know. > > Cheers, > Adrian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > Getting Started: http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started > Community Web Site: http://jini.org > jini-users Archive: > http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini-users.html > Unsubscribing: email "signoff JINI-USERS" to > [email protected] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Getting Started: http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started > Community Web Site: http://jini.org > jini-users Archive: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini-users.html > Unsubscribing: email "signoff JINI-USERS" to [email protected] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Started: http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started Community Web Site: http://jini.org jini-users Archive: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini-users.html Unsubscribing: email "signoff JINI-USERS" to [email protected]