how about OSGi?

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An Open Source project, called Physalis, has been started to implement an
OSGi like service framework for the .Net CF.

The address is:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/physalis/

This framework directly targets the CF V2, and the status is we can now
install/start/stop bundles.

If you're interested in, feel free to participate to the discussion list.

It's important to understand that OSGi specifications have been design for
the Java technology. Due to big differences between .Net and Java, it is not
possible to implement exactly OSGi on .Net.

I'll start ASAP a Physalis FAQ to explain my choices.

Romu
 
thanks Romu,
but I was wondering if the OSGi is really important,
why microsoft did not officially get involve,
and leave the "Missing pieces" to open source development,
maybe the .net framework will handle all of the "OSGi-like" job after all?
 
IMHO, I would say MS has decided to be breatly involved in Web services. And
web services can be used to implement SOA (Services Oriented Architecture).

The next MS step will be Indigo, the Longhorn SOA application framework, and
I don't know if MS will provide an Indigo Compact Framework.

So is OSGi really important ? It's up to you. Do you develop service based
apps ? I do, for many years now. OSGi is just a way to do that and you can
figure out many other ways to implement a service framework. But I didn't see
anything in the current CF (nor in the V2) to implement efficiently, on smart
device (so with limited resources), a service framework.

Romu
 
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