Re: [eclipse-dev] Adding Equinox Declarative Services (DS) to the Eclips

[Simon J Archer <sarcher@xxxxxxxxxx>]

DS is the missing link that we need
to be able to use OSGi services in the Eclipse IDE. I've experience of
both the Equinox DS implementation from Prosyst and the new PDE tooling
for DS -- both are excellent additions to Eclipse.

+1 for the inclusion of DS in the Eclipse
SDK.

Chris Aniszczyk <zx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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01/26/2009 11:35 AM

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Subject	[eclipse-dev] Adding Equinox Declarative Services (DS) to the        Eclipse SDK

Howdy y'all. I like to raise the question of us adding
Equinox DS to the Eclipse SDK. DS provides a powerful way to deal with
OSGi services and in my opinion, greatly simplifies the development of
services. As we forge towards Eclipse 3.5, we made a lot of steps to make
DS easier to use in the Eclipse SDK without it actually being in the SDK:

- Prosyst donated a high quality implementation of OSGi DS that made its
way to the Equinox SDK
- PDE release DS component authoring tools as part of a GSOC project and
3.5 work
- The DS spec was updated to work better with lazy bundles (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=226575)

Technically, to add DS to the Eclipse SDK all we need to do as add these
two tiny bundles:

     org.eclipse.equinox.ds (.15MB)
     org.eclipse.equinox.util (.02MB)

So my request in sending this email out is to get the opinion of consumers
(anyone who builds applications on top of Eclipse) and producers (the Eclipse
platform team, especially the Equinox committers). Do consumers see a benefit
of having DS in the SDK? Does the greater Eclipse team feel comfortable
with having DS in the SDK and may use it in the future potentially?

And if we reach a consensus, it would be great to see DS included with
the Eclipse SDK in the 3.5M6 timeframe. If not, at least we had a fun discussion
:)

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Chris Aniszczyk_______________________________________________
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