Comments on: Modular Web Applications with SpringSource Slices

By: Glyn Normington

Glyn Normington — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:55:20 +0000

Slices was donated to the Eclipse Virgo project and renamed to "snaps" where it is still currently a prototype but is being maintained and extended. We plan to bring it out of prototype status once documentation has been written to make its features and limitations clear.

Virgo: http://www.eclipse.org/virgo/

Snaps git repository: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Virgo/Source

By: ss

ss — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:47:05 +0000

Is there any update on this project ! Is it being developed, and can we hope for a stable release !

By: jlm

jlm — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:44:02 +0000

Hello,

it seems that the spring slice project is no longer active ?
Am I wrong ?

JLM.

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Web Application Extensibility with FubuMVC (Part 1) | ImCoder.net — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:35:21 +0000

[...] Originally I had thought that we could achieve extensibility and componentization (slices / areas / engines) through merging or importing one FubuRegistry into another, but that’s hit [...]

By: imikhayl

imikhayl — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:15:20 +0000

how slices works with xsl:include and with xsl in general… would be good in case some kind of xsl tutorial provided

By: Ben Hale

Ben Hale — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:22:40 +0000

@Alexi

You are correct that we're moving Slices from a prototype over to a proper project at the moment and during this time we've taken a step back to work on some of the interesting use-cases we identified. As you've seen we are working on bringing the concept of a 'service registry' to applications outside of OSGi, but I would hesitate to refer to it as lightweight OSGi (specifically, Slices does not address runtime modularity at all).

Because some of the features from the prototype require base functionality like a service registry to work, they will necessarily come after the low-level infrastructure being created for Slices. Rest assured that before long modular web application behavior will return to Slices in both OSGi and non-OSGi environments. I encourage you to keep an eye on this blog as well as the Slices JIRA (https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SLICE) for details about when these features are ready.

Thanks for your interest in the project, and I hope that you're as excited as I am to see what will come.

By: alexi

alexi — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:37:51 +0000

As I know, slice will become a standalone spring project (not depend on osgi) since spring dm server will move to eclipse foundation. I do find the latest source code begin to support deploying slice into standard web container such as tomcat. But from the sample, I can not find modular "WEB" application. I mean a standard war as a slice which can be attached to the host webapp. It is more like a lightweight osgi container (we can define service as slice(bundle), and other slice or webapp can refer the servie).

By: dan

dan — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:01:43 +0000

is the license free? lib/dm-server-license.html says it is non-redistributable

By: Chandler

Chandler — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:33:05 +0000

How can I package slices-api.jar from the slices source dir ?
I am getting that error as it is missing during installation of slices into spring dm.

Thanks

By: alexi

alexi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:13:23 +0000

I defined http url intercept in applicationContext.xml.It works when I access directly a protected page in the slice by inputting its address in the browser's address box.

But the security tag defined in jsp page does not work. After debugging, I find it used the root webapplicationContext instead of the slice's.