Equinox Minutes - 20081104

Agenda

• Reminder to send Tom status for the Wednesday Eclipse team call.
• Discuss adding DS to the SDK.

Attendees

• Andrew Cattle
• Andrew Niefer
• DJ Houghton
• John Arthorne
• Pascal Rapicault
• Simon Kaegi
• Tom Watson

Minutes

• DS
  • Equinox DS is adding support in M4 for lazy started bundles
  • We now have tooling in the SDK for DS
  • Allows code to remove direct dependency on OSGi
  • About 200KB total size
  • How to handle multiple instances of a service where the instance you obtain is based on some runtime property. Possibly ComponentFactory can help.
  • Need to add public test suites
  • Need to do some more investigation on how much it helps us

• Tests
  • We have various tests for equinox bundles that we should integrate into the build process
  • Could possibly use Common Build mechanism for building separate Equinox bundles

• EclipseCon - We discussed what talks/tutorials the Equinox team members are thinking of submitting for EclipseCon 2009.
  • Andrew N. - PDE-Build tutorial
  • Simon - Server-side tutorial
  • Tom - Talk on new OSGi R4.2 Framework features
  • Pascal - p2 tutoral