I guess given that no framework support it and that nobody uses this jar yet, I will just defer ;-) Many thanks for this explanation.
On 9/21/07, Karl Pauls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I have something more consistent, but I can really put it as a > > patch as it involves copying from tags to trunk, so I guess I'll just > > commit it for review. > > The only problem I have comes from the commonj spec: the package is > > java.commonj and it seems the felix plugin does not really like java.* > > packages and consider them as reserved... So I doubt this one can be > > OSGified right now. > > This is because bundles don't need to import java.* packages. They are > boot delegated automatically. So you don't need to add them as an > import. > > In this case, this presents a problem because you are trying to > provide a bootclasspath extension. There is a way that this can be > done in OSGi by making the bundle an extension bundle (see 3.15 in the > spec). Basically, you would need to add the following header: > > Fragment-Host: system.bundle; extension:=bootclasspath > > for a bundle that exports java.* packages (extension bundles are not > allowed to have imports so you would maybe need to split the bundle in > two: one extension bundle with only java.* and one normal one with the > rest). > > However, I don't think there are many OSGi frameworks that support > bootclasspath extension bundles atm (neither Felix nor Equinox does). > > regards, > > Karl > > > On 9/21/07, Guillaume Nodet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For ServiceMix 4.0, which will be based on OSGi, I will need to have > > > OSGified versions of some of the spec jars that geronimo provides. > > > It's quite easy to do in ServiceMix (see > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/servicemix/branches/servicemix-4.0/bundles/ > > > for servlet, j2ee-management, jms mainly), but I think it would be > > > more useful for other projects if the specs jars were bundles > > > themselves. > > > > > > This is quite a simple process that can be done incrementally without > > > any real side effect and low risk of regression. So unless someone > > > objects, I'd like to start working on that. > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers, > > > Guillaume Nodet > > > ------------------------ > > > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Guillaume Nodet > > ------------------------ > > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ > > > > > -- > Karl Pauls > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
