Re: Proposal to use OSGi for component modularity

2012-05-31 Thread Marcel Offermans
Hello Mohammad, On May 31, 2012, at 20:36 , Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: > But from what you said Frank, and what others proposed, I think you don't > need that kind of modularity facilitated by OSGi or like technologies, I > believe all what we need then is: > > 1- Good design +1 > 2- Good doc

Re: Proposal to use OSGi for component modularity

2012-05-30 Thread Marcel Offermans
On May 31, 2012, at 0:59 AM, Frank Zhang wrote: > Another problem I want to raise here is the class loader issue. > There are bunch of places in CloudStack using Class.forName(), I am sure > ClassNotFoundException would then be our best friend. Class.forName() in general won't work in OSGi, that

Re: Proposal to use OSGi for component modularity

2012-05-30 Thread Marcel Offermans
Alex, one of the mentors, pointed me to this thread. I've been doing OSGi projects for over 10 years now and am involved in Felix, ACE and Celix (all OSGi related projects here at Apache). > From: Alex Huang > > CloudStack is built as a product with modularity enforced by interfaces. It > ha