I’d much much rather see the split packages resolved than have an uber jar.
Can the packages be moved into a “common” jar or something that can be referenced by both? Dan > On Nov 13, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Clebert Suconic <[email protected]> > wrote: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARTEMIS-93 > > OSGI still an open task. Fancy contributing? (as the British would say) > > The first thing thing I know we will need is an uber JAR. I think we > talked about this during the last Apache Con with some folks.. and I > also remember talking to some other folks.. that the first thing we > will need is an Uber Jar... > > > ActiveMQ has it being done here: > > https://github.com/apache/activemq/tree/master/activemq-osgi > > > Maybe that's an easy transfer? > > > And that would take care of your issue of multiple split jars.. (We > need the split jars as the clients don't want to have server > objects... and other things that are best to be kept separate... you > don't need the resource adapter on the client for instance). > > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was looking at supporting OSGi deployment for Artemis. >> >> The first big problem I hit is the existence of split packages. Split >> packages are java packages shared across multiple jars (which become >> bundles in OSGi). >> Examples of those are org.apache.activemq.artemis.uri (shared between >> artemis-jms-client and artemis-core-client) or >> org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.config (shared between artemis-core-client >> and artemis-commons). >> The reason they are problematic is that in OSGi, each bundle has its own >> class loader, importing classes from other packages based on packages. The >> same package can not be imported from 2 different bundles. >> >> So the question is: would it be possible to get rid of those split packages >> ? It can be done either by moving the classes from a jar to another one, >> keeping the same package name, or by renaming one of the split package so >> that there's no duplicate package names across jars. >> >> Thoughts ? >> Guillaume Nodet > > > > -- > Clebert Suconic -- Daniel Kulp [email protected] - http://dankulp.com/blog Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com
