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Re: [equinox-dev] Declarative Services vs Spring
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Subbarao,
I think you're probably right. Having played with Declarative Services in the last few days, I really miss the flexibility and expressiveness of Spring's DI capabilities.
I've just been to a seminar given by Rod Johnson where he mentioned that they are working on OSGi integration with Spring, ie making Spring more dynamic so that it will work properly within an OSGi runtime. That's very exciting for me because I think that OSGi combined with Spring's rich framework and AOP features would be an incredible platform for enterprise services. It would blow away anything previously possible with J2EE and EJB.
Unfortunately Rod said that this functionality is probably something that will be in Spring 3.0, where Spring is currently in 2.0 M1. As an alternative from the OSGi side, DS could be made more powerful so it could replace Spring's DI capabilities, while still making use of the other two sides of the "Spring triangle".
Neil
On 3/1/06, Subbarao Meduri <mkv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Agreed that OSGi is a more dynamic platform, and thus could say constructor injection is not the best thing that components should implement. However, if you take the view that OSGi is also a integration platform for components (where you don't necessarily have control over how a component is designed), it would make sense to me that declarative services support constructor injection. Obviously, it would not be a best practice, but it at least it will not inhibit a component that is not designed to leverage OSGi dynamic features from being integrated into the framework.
Thoughts ?
Subbarao
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I think that's intentional. With OSGi you always have to be aware that
the services you depend on might go away, and possibly come back again
later. That's the essence of OSGi - it's dynamic. In this context an
"immutable final service reference" is an oxymoron.
Spring lives in a comfortable static world where dependencies, once
supplied, will live for at least as long as the things that depend on
them. In OSGi, that kind of assumption is only really valid for
intra-bundle dependencies. DS on the other can handle dynamic
inter-bundle dependencies, which IMHO makes it much more powerful.
On the other hand Spring has much more to it than dependency
injection. It also has a number of very powerful libraries, eg for
developing DAOs using JDBC or O/R mappers, an AOP library, remoting
libraries, etc. Because Spring is wonderfully modular, you can use as
much or as little of it as you like (just like Eclipse!).
- Neil
On 3/1/06, Subbarao Meduri <mkv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> How does declarative services fare when compared with Spring framework in
> terms of its injection capabilities ? My apologies if this is already
> discussed on this forum.
>
> Is there a reason why declarative services does not support constructor
> injection, for example ? It seems constructor injection is the only way to
> initialize a component that holds a immutable (final) service reference
> injected via its constructor.
>
> Appreciate your thoughts.
>
> Regards,
> Subbarao
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