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At 4:44 PM on Apr 3, 2007, Alex Blewitt
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This will be great for OSGi for Equinox; whilst there were some implementations of e.g. declarative services, there were some unresolved issues regarding synchronisation with classloaders, whilst the implementation from ProSyst is generally considered to be better. There's still some time before this will become available in Equinox generally; it has to go through both the incubator and the Eclipse Legal Process , but time permitting it will propagate through.
The question is, will it be in time for Eclipse 3.3? At this stage of the game (3.3M7) PMC approval is required for public API changes, and it still has to go through the process first. So it's not guaranteed yet.
Alex.
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Re: Contribution of new OSGi declarative services draws closer
I think it's kind of irrelevant whether this will be in time for Eclipse 3.3. The supplemental bundles such as Declarative Services, Event Admin etc have always been separate downloads from the core Equinox distributions, and certainly won't be part of the SDK downloads. There's no reason to tie the release cycle for ProSyst's contribution into the Europa timeline.Re: Contribution of new OSGi declarative services draws closer
Except for people wanting to write Eclipse 3.3 RCPs that take advantage of Declarative Services, who will see it as an advantage. Furthermore, if it's in Europa then there may be more early adopters for people utilising DS for Eclipse-based plugins, who only need to say 'Depends on 3.3' rather than 'Depends on 3.3, oh, and this bit that you need to download from the Equinox site'.Alex.