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OSGi Development Tooling Summit Review for

OSGi Users’ Forum UK, 7th Apr ’09David Savage [email protected]

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Agenda

• The Meeting

• My Thoughts

• Your Thoughts

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The Meeting

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Attendees• Chris Aniszczyk EclipseSource PDE

• David Bosschaert Progress SOA Tools Eclipse

• Alex Buckley Sun JLS, JSR 294

• Ludovic Champenois Sun Netbeans

• Christian Dupuis SpringSource DM Server Tooling

• Richard S. Hall Sun Apache Felix

• BJ Hargrave IBM OSGi Alliance

• Oisín Hurley Progress SOA Tools Eclipse

• Eric Johnson TIBCO Eclipse Tools

• Peter Kriens aQute bnd

• Jeff McAffer EclipseSource Eclipse

• Tim Moore Atlassian Jira,Bamboo

• Stuart McCulloch Code Dragons maven+bnd

• Karl Pauls Akquinet Apache Felix

• Yan Pujante LinkedIn ant+bnd

• David Savage Paremus Sigil+bnd

• Max Spring Cisco

• Dennis Vaughn Cisco

• Jason van Zyl Sonatype Maven

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Summit Agenda

• Intro

• 10 min position statements from maven, sigil, PDE, bnd, Groovy make, ...

• Brainstorm, no rules, as wild as it gets

• Create an item list of important areas

• Prioritize

• Create next action list

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Position

• Recognition that OSGi runtime needs tooling support

• Good tools with partial solutions

• General consensus to work together

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Important Areas

• Repository

• Application model

• Dependency Management

• Metadata creation/management

• Visualization/Analysis

• Version Management

• Build consistency

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Repository

• P2 vs OBR - RFP 122

• http://tensegrity.hellblazer.com/

• Bundles

• Configuration (Spring, SCA) etc

• Maven/Ivy/Sigil

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Application Model

• Eclipse Features

• Spring Libraries

• Paremus Systems

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Dependency Management

• OBR

• P2

• Nimble

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Metadata creation/management

• Consistent, shared

• Maven

• Ivy

• Eclipse

• Netbeans

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Visualization & Analysis

• Need lots of this...

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Version Management

• Advise if version numbers need updating

• Management of version range between dev, integration, live

• Reference to Robert Dunne’s talk “OSGi Release Versioning Strategies”

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Build Consistency

• Developer experience

• IDE

• offline build

• Visibility fidelity

• compile

• runtime

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Use Cases

• Developer

• Repository Manager

• Continuous Build

• Product Packaging

• Deployment

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Next Steps

• Blogging

• Feedback

• Tooling Consolidation

• Mailing List

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My Thoughts

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Spec First?

• OSGi Alliance typically tries to set up standards for vendors to interoperate

• Lots of complexity in development tooling space

• Likely need some consolidation in tools before any agreed specs can be achieved - too many cooks

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OSGi vs Jigsaw

• Jigsaw is trying to modularise the JVM in a simplistic manner and maintain backwards compatability

• Module public (default) - ok for past, broken for future

• Class scope vs package scope - resolution hell

• Issue of non java resources?

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P2 vs OBR vs Nimble

• IMHO

• OBR is simplistic

• P2 is complex and optimised too early

• Nimble is new

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Your Thoughts?

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• Company Website: http://www.paremus.com

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• Sigil Project: http://sigil.codecauldron.org