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<h1 id="improvement-ideas">Improvement Ideas</h1>
<h1 id="introduce-dlmopen-for-library-imports">Introduce dlmopen for library imports.</h1>
<p>Currently library are loaded LOCAL for bundles. This works alright, but makes it hard to add a concept
of exporting and importing libraries.</p>
<p>The trick is that the NEEDED header in the importing libraries
should match the target exported library SONAME header and no other exported libraries SONAME headers.
One solution to make this work is to alter the NEEDED &amp; SONAME runtime.</p>
<p>For glibc there is now an other alternative, namely using dlmopen. dlmopen makes it possible to load
libraries in a given namespace. For bundle this can be used to create a library namespace per bundle
and load exported libraries int importing bundle namespace. A clean solution, but this currently
only works for glibc (linux).</p>
<h1 id="fix-the-performance-use-case-and-add-c-support">Fix the performance use case and add C++ support</h1>
<p>There was a locking example which also functioned as a performance test to measure the impact of
using services instead of direct function calls.
During the removal of APR this example stopped working. Add it back, fix it and add a C++ use case
as example.
See <a href="https://github.com/apache/celix/tree/216032cae956379d4a740f37ae5caee7e957bd98/examples/locking">locking example tree</a></p>
<h1 id="cleanup-celix-project-structure">Cleanup Celix project structure</h1>
<p>Celix is growing and getting more sub project, this is fine but maybe the structure needs a cleanup to
create a more clear root directory structure.</p>
<h1 id="extend-the-test-environment">Extend the test environment</h1>
<h1 id="improve-documentation">Improve documentation</h1>
<h1 id="create-one-or-more-real-life-applications-based-on-celix-to-show-the-potential-of-celix">Create one or more &ldquo;real life&rdquo; applications based on Celix to show the potential of Celix</h1>
<h1 id="add-pub-sub-admins">Add pub sub admins.</h1>
<p>The current implementation uses JSON over multicast UDP or over ZMQ.<br>
One or more could be added. i.e. serialization based on Apache-Avro, communication over TCP / Kafka / Shared Memory<br>
Add interfaces for other languages (Python / Rust / Go / &hellip;)</p>
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