[ovirt-devel] Thoughts on modularization

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs at redhat.com>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>, "Mark Proctor" <mdproctor at gmail.com>, devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2014 10:40:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] Thoughts on modularization
> 
> 
> > 
> > 4. there must be core model to trigger the entire thing, core cannot be
> > just
> > a loader.
> 
> Alon, can you elaborate here on number 4?
> In an ideal world, wouldn't you want to have the "engine core" be a small as
> something that goes over the extensions and loads them? and maybe let each
> extension expose somehow its relevant part of rest-api (besides of using
> ext-api to interact between extension and of course each extension should
> have the relevant logic implementerd within)

Well, there is a balance between generic and specific.
If you go this route, can the Java JRE be the core you are looking for?
The wisdom is to draw the line where the building blocks serves the purpose of building the application you need.

Alon