While at JavaOne, we 've discussed using OSGI inside ServiceMix. There are two areas where it can be used: * the first one is to replace classworlds / xbean to configure the container. Using OSGI will enable better classloader control and will allow updates of JNDI, container and additionnal services at runtime * the second area would be to use it for deployement too. This would also give better control on the classloader (share libraries between SU for example), better versionning. But I'm not sure yet how this could be compatible with ServiceMix yet. I guess we can use the same mechanism we use in the Geronimo deployer: the components / SAs are deployed as OSGI bundles and we use an OSGI listener to dynamically add it to ServiceMix.
I guess the next step is to use OSGI to deploy an artifact to a cluster of ServiceMix instances, but i've no idea yet how it can be handled. I will try to look at the container side first and will send an update soon (I guess i will create a new branch to experiment a bit). Any thoughts or additionnal ideas ? -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Principal Engineer, IONA Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
