Remote code loader

Introduction

A Kevoree model represents a set of Components, Nodes, Groups and Channels that can be connected together.

At some point the nodes have to load the Components, Groups fragments and Channels fragments from a shared code repository.

Once loaded in a node, a piece of code must be isolated from the rest of the application.

For example if a Node "A" have a dependency to a library Z in version 1.0.0 and have to load Component "B" with a dependency to the same library Z but in version 2.0.0, the action of loading "B" in the context of "A" should not override Z in its version 2.0.0

Existing implementations

Java

Repo: maven
Loader: ClassLoader named KCL

Javascript

Repo: npm
Loader: Node.js module (CommonJS standard)

Code isolation is a structural feature of this platform because modules are loaded based on their full path location and versioning is handled by npm

C#

Repo: Nuget
Loader: The code isolation is based on AppDomain and the MEF Framework.

The Kevoree Dotnet Nuget Loader is a component which combines Nuget, AppDomain and MEF. It take a Nuget name and version and return an isolated context containing the remote component code.

Advices

This component can be pretty tricky to implement according to the default features of the targeted language.

You should implement it as soon as possible because it will impact the following code parts :

Remote Code Loader