Re: [soa-iwg] Roadmap v0.5

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ricco Deutscher wrote:
> Scott,
>
> This is my last comment to the whole discussion:
>
> I see consensus in the group that Distributed OSGi/RFC119 is relevant 
> for SOA. The group would be happy to include that into the SOA 
> platform, if somebody steps up to integrate it to the other parts of 
> the SOA platform. 

In my view integration with the existing SOA/swordfish runtime/tooling 
is a bogus requirement for inclusion in a SOA package.   It is saying 
that SOA-relevant runtime things (e.g. RFC119) have to be integrated 
with the existing runtime/tooling to be relevant to SOA runtimes...which 
is circular.   It would be akin to saying that Equinox's implementation 
of the OSGi core spec has to be integrated with the PDE before it could 
be considered for the runtime.

Further, RFC119/Distributed OSGi already has tooling (in essence, the 
PDE, Declarative services, etc)...i.e. the tooling around supporting 
OSGi in general.  So *that's* a much more reasonable/simpler (few 
dependencies) integration point for RFC119/OSGi...and that's where we've 
chosen to focus on integration.


Scott