Virgo/Community/Minutes-2016-02-24

Attendees

• GianMaria Romanato
• Daniel Marthaler
• Florian Waibel

Discussion

1. Scope of release 3.7.0

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Virgo/Future#3.7.0_.28Steel.29_Release Virgo Steel Bugtrain: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=396813

1. Application configuration options:

* http://owner.aeonbits.org/ - Java properties reinvented
* http://javaeeconfig.blogspot.ch/2014/08/overview-of-existing-configuration.html
* http://constretto.org/
* https://tamaya.incubator.apache.org 

1. Where to put the “kernel-tools repository”
2. Various discussions about how to integrate 3rd party technology in Virgo

* traditional JNDI vs. Gemini Naming
* JPA with Eclipse Link (multi tenancy support) not working with GeminiDB
* Is Gemini JPA not production ready? (Instrumentation at build time)
* Embed ElasticSearch into Virgo (uses native library)
* Integrate with Netty and Zookeeper
* Integration with Hazelcast
* ConfigAdmin + MetaType
* Equinox Registry
* Virgo inside Docker -> Shutdown to slow (10 second timeout of Docker)
* Simple JMX (https://github.com/j256/simplejmx) vs. Jolokia Bridge
* Alternative DI: https://www.eclipse.org/sisu/

Actions

1. *done* Merge new profile support into master (Virgo tooling / giamma)
2. *done* Reproduce p2 resolver error (Virgo tooling / giamma)
3. *done* Create Bugzilla as follow up of the "kernel-tools" discussion (giamma)

Next meeting

23 March 2016 at 9:30 p.m. (CET)