Re: [platform-dev] Extensibility of the application model

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OSGi is a technical choice for the Platform, something that is happily used and provide a lot of value. However, extensibility of the Platform doesn't have to necessarily be best according to OSGi. It has to be best according to itself and its targets.

If you look at the only feedback we have from someone (Tom with efxclipse) who's likely to add model fragments without using the extension point, then the feedback is that a MANIFEST header is not satisfying and services are better. It just look like there is more need for services to provide that than for the header. As such, the header may just be something we don't need at all and not just something that's postponed.

Concretely, the MANIFEST header seems to be a dogmatic solution with inferior value and higher cost to compared to the pragmatic OSGi services approach.