| [gyrex-dev] Gyrex and Virgo |
| At yesterday's RT PMC call we discussed the likely possibility that Gyrex will move to Eclipse RT as it graduates. This makes good sense. Looking at Gyrex, it would seem to complement Virgo perfectly, so I'd like to see what combinations of features are possible and useful. Perhaps the simplest starting point would be to run Gyrex with Virgo Nano (which includes standard Equinox launch setup with logback-based logging, Apache Gogo console, and nice p2 integration). I guess this would take a couple of hours to get going, for someone with the appropriate Gyrex skills. I think there could be some interesting usecases for Gyrex clusters of Virgo Nano or Virgo Kernel instances. (Nano and the kernel are runtimes without specific servers pre-installed.) It might then be possible to use Apache CXF (also based on ZooKeeper) as a distributed OSGi implementation or to use messaging, e.g. in the form of Eclipse Paho (for MQTT pub/sub) or RabbitMQ (for AMQP). It should also be possible to move Gyrex up the Virgo stack ([1]). Note that our server deliverables have Tomcat as well as Jetty variants, so I wonder how tied to Jetty Gyrex is? I'm interested in the layering of Gyrex as we could then work out what combinations of Gyrex and Virgo bundles would work together or overlap. Thoughts? |