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osgi - 10 years after the "overseer" application

 
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Hi,

I worked 10 years ago on a big project for a bank that provided almost the same functionnality than osgi... but it was written in C and linked to windows (NT 3.5).

I'm very interested by osgi... but had no enough free time yet to practice it.
So I have only a partial knowledge about osgi...

I would like to explain what in my "old project" offered in my opinion more fonctionnality:
- each module can be asynchrone (by configuration)
- each module can have a queue (by configuration) who can be or not saved to the disk (in case of crash, ...)
- each module can "auto" check for an update (via several protocols: http, ftp, ...)
- each module can load a new version and run in the same time than the other versions
- each module who depend from another version will take :
a. the version of the depend specified
b. the most newest version compatible (from until)
- when a newer version is loaded, the previous version can be "disabled for new request"... and stop when is job queue is empty.
- each module provide informations about his load, his average processing time, ... to a "statistic" service
- each module can be installed to different servers and communicate with dependencies through severals protocol (tcpip, ...)
- each module could be stopped for system maintenance and save his queue to the disk
- each module had a "watchdog"... who allow to avoid the system to freeze in case of deadlock or other similar problem.

I would like to debate how it should be possible to achieve the same functionnality with osgi.
--> I hope to work with osgi next year...

OSGI look very similar in several ways to this project.
Nice to see it in java 10 year later :-)

Thanks for your remarks.

Stephane
 
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Hi,

I did'nt get any answeer... but win the book.

Well, this is may be a sign I have to read the book (I will).

Thanks anyway for all.

Regards,

Stephane
 
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It sounds like the project you worked on provided a lot of the same features as OSGi. Specifically...

- The ability to run multiple versions of a module at the same time
- Dependency management where one module can depend on a specific or ranged version of another module (although OSGi offers package-level dependencies which are more loosely-coupled than module-level dependencies)
- Hot-swapping of dependencies
- Distributed modules (becoming possible with OSGi R4.2)

As for some of the other features...OSGi may not offer them as part of its spec, but I can imagine ways to build on top of OSGi to provide them.

 
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Craig Walls wrote:

As for some of the other features...OSGi may not offer them as part of its spec, but I can imagine ways to build on top of OSGi to provide them.



Yes, osgi sounds very familiar to my previous project.
--> Who said never reinvent the wheel ??? :-))

May I ask you develops a little the way you should use to provide theses others feature ?
I think I will develop them has openSource project if nobody did it before... any help is welcome :-))

Thanks a lot,

Kind regards,

Stephane



 
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