Study and experiment usage of OSGi to manage plugins

• Study and experiment usage of OSGi as a replacement of current jnode's specific plugin framework (inspired by eclipse's one)
• Advice : The developer will have to deal with with Classloaders. It sounds to be a very hard task; It might even happen that's not a suitable replacement for our current plugin framework;
  Moreover, the incoming modules for openjdk7 (project jigsaw) might come in the way/interfere with osgi. So, in my opinion, it's an heavily experimental task !
• Tips : Look at one of these implementations of OSGi :
  • Apache Felix
  • Eclipse equinox
  • knopflerfish
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