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<appendix id="appendix-roadmap">
	<title>Roadmap</title>

	<para>
		This appendix documents features on the Gemini Blueprint
		roadmap. The design of these features specified here is subject
		to change. As a most up to date source, please see
		<ulink url="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?product=Gemini.Blueprint">
			our
		</ulink>
		issue tracker.
	</para>

    <section>
      <title>Start Level Integration</title>

      <para>A future release of Gemini Blueprint may offer the following
      additional guarantee with respect to application context creation and
      start levels:</para>

      <para>Application context creation happens asynchronously. However, the
      extender bundle does guarantee that the creation of all application
      contexts for bundles at start level <literal>n</literal> will be
      complete before the creation of any application context at start level
      <literal>m</literal>, where <literal>m > n</literal>. Care must
      therefore be taken not to introduce any mandatory dependencies on
      services exported by bundles with higher start levels or a deadlock will
      be introduced.</para>

      <para>In a similar vein, when shutting down the extender bundle,
      application contexts at start level <literal>m</literal> will be shut
      down before application contexts at start level <literal>n</literal>,
      where <literal>m > n</literal>.</para>
    </section>

   
</appendix>