GlassFish v3 to be based on OSGi?

via Jerome Dochez (Du côté de chez…) it looks like Glassfish v3 will be running in top of OSGi (hopefully Felix).

Now the interesting question that everyone will be asking soon, are we switching to OSGi as our underlying module subsystem ? Today I can say yes, we will.

I don’t know very much about Glassfish, but knowing the Sun position
on OSGi (or lack thereof) made me wonder if this was a belated April Fool’s joke. This seems like a very bold move and hopefully there is more news like this on the way (crossing fingers). Given the recent analysis of JSR-277 by Peter Kriens (Ghost Town JCP) and Neil Bartlett (No Way to Run a JSR), maybe my one time wish that “common sense would prevail” might show a glimmer of hope?

    Posted by Chris Custine on April 12th, 2008 filed in Java, OSGi

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