C++ modularization framework (like OSGi) ?

Question

I found one SOF http://www.codeproject.com/KB/library/SOF_.aspx , Are there anyother stable frameworks for modularization in C++ ?

Answer 1

The authors of the open source Portable Components library (POCO) have also developed a modular framework based on OSGI called OSP or Open Service Platform. http://www.appinf.com/en/products/osp.html. It's not open source however.

Answer 2

I found this write-up which gives a status as of April 2012. Definitely worth reviewing OSGi and C++ frameworks overview.

Answer 3

There is also BlueBerry http://www.blueberry-project.org which implements a component based framework inspired by OSGi. It also comes with an application framework similar to the Eclipse RCP.

A rewrite of the BlueBerry core can be found in the CTK PluginFramework library (based on Qt Core): Introduction, GitHub Code .

Answer 4

The OSGi4Cpp tries to implement the OSGi specification in C++.

• Chris K: osgi4cpp is a dead project - never had any activity on it.
• hoijui: indeed, this is the least usefull of all the answers to this question

Answer 5

I've never seen a solution to the whole problem, but I implemented something similar using Qt plugins.

The part Qt did nicely (that C++ by itself doesn't implement) was handling C++ OO interfaces in dynamically loadable modules. Because of C++ name-mangling being non-standard, usually DLLs don't have C++ interfaces, only C interfaces. Qt did it with it's meta-object system, and it worked really cleanly for me.

• hoijui: the CTK Plugin Framework uses the QT plugin system, as is described in the blog post that @Langley linked to.

Answer 6

Checkout cppmicroservices. It is actively developed and provides a reasonable starting point for creating an SOA based dynamic services in C++.

Answer 7

Apache Celix is an OSGi implementation for C and C++ http://celix.apache.org/