[news.eclipse.technology.ecp] Re: Demo application and source code from

[aantonau@xxxxxxxxxx (Alex Antonau)]

Neil,

1. Regarding DS
No doubt that current implementation of Service Runtime will be replaced 
with Equinox DS as soon as it will support multiple declarations and will 
be properly tested. Currently we are trying to use the platform in real 
projects so we need reliable SCR.
By the way, current implementation of Service Runtime based on Gravity 
http://gravity.sourceforge.net/servicebinder/  

2. Regarding beans and services
We decided distinct bean objects from services. OSGi services are 
relatively ?heavy? objects which are registered with the service registry 
and visible in all applications. Beans are POJO instances that are not 
registered with OSGi service registry and visible only in creating 
application. We think it?s better for the platform to have different 
object models to choose from. 

3. We are going to use AOP that is being developed for Equinox:
http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/incubator/aspects/index.php 

4. As soon as we?ll have source code repository with Eclipse Foundation 
you can contribute your work for further development. 


Thank you for your time and interest,
Alex Antonau