Spring is now shipping in a OSGi bundle form which works well in as an
eclipse plugin.
Have you ever considered the use of spring within Riena?
For my understand Spring OSGi is very useful for Spring centered applications -
with focus on IoC/dependency injections. Here Spring is very powerful. Or
already Spring based applications have the need of a real component/dynamic
environment -> OSGi. Some other applications (Equinox centered) haven't this
focus, because Equinox as single solid base fullfil all their needs. Or some
other applications have restrictions using Equinox/OSGi in combination with Spring.
Riena as c/s enterprise application platform is Equinox centered. However, I
think to use Spring OSGi in combination with Riena or not is dependent on the
needs of the application.