Potomac and Apache Flex
I noticed some posts on the apache flex dev mailing list for requests of OSGI like features for flex and how other frameworks are lacking with module management.
What are your thoughts on giving potomac some new life with apache flex?
Support Staff 2 Posted by Chris on 19 Jan, 2012 12:11 PM
Hi Ray,
That’s an interesting idea. If there was some drive and motivation from the main movers and shakers there then we would be interested in providing any help we can. We would certainly be willing to provide/license any Potomac source as necessary.
Regards,
-Chris
3 Posted by Michael Schmalle on 19 Jan, 2012 01:31 PM
Hi Chris,
Long time, :) Hope things are going well for you.
Actually the person that started this thread was me. :)
I actually recognized Ray's name when he replied about Potomac as being an option that was already developed.
I then said hey, I was using that and actually put a lot of time into it(user wise).
Long story short, I am an initial committer in the Apache Flex project and have a great interest in the bundle loading code. There are others that have expressed an interest as well.
So as far as "movers and shakers" I guess that would be me since I am committing code and have whiteboard space in the actual project.
Mike
Support Staff 4 Posted by Chris on 20 Jan, 2012 12:47 PM
Hey Mike,
Nice to hear from you!
I'm happy to donate any part of the Potomac code that you're interested in. It sounds like you're interested in just the Potomac core but I'd caution you that just pulling in one part of Potomac is probably not easy or wise. At a minimum, core depends on some tooling stuff to build out the expected bundle manifests, swc's, etc. Then once you provide the core to users, they'll need to start using the extension point mechanism which relies on some tooling again. And then they'll need to build UIs and you'll need some sort of UI framework that pieces together parts from different bundles based on some extension point and also hides most of the asynchronous complexity of loading different bundles across the wire (i.e. Potomac UI).
But regardless I'm happy to let you use whatever parts you wish.
Regards,
-Chris