Equinox/Meeting Minutes/20091006

Agenda

• Strategy for moving to Java 5.
• p2 API churn.
• Ways to inject through extension registry and e4.
• Filter support for our http service.

Attendees

• DJ
• Simon
• Pascal
• Tom
• Andrew

Minutes

• Strategy for moving to Java 5
  • If you target 1.4 bytecode then it will not compile in StringBuilder etc.
    • Is that standard Java now? It is not official. It has not been well tested.
  • This will keep the generifications, need to verify.
  • API tooling will validate that all the EEs you specify contain the methods you are using.
• p2 API churn
  • Doing API shaping first
  • Then move/rename package names
  • Move to Generics
  • Need to be careful not to break clients. Give heads up to consumers.
• Ways to inject through extension registry and e4.
  • Look at what riena is doing
  • Peaberry - layer on top of Guice that injects services and interacts with the registry. (Google code).
    • Mavin guys are using it for their move to OSGi.
• Filter support for http service
  • javax.serlver.Filter (not org.osgi.framework.Filter!)
  • Can be used for security
  • Should there be an extension point for Filters? It becomes API.
  • The service would be provisional, no extension point for now.
• Andrew will look at launcher changes to remove Windows 98 stuff.