How about fixing the servicemix bundles in a branch and maybe even release a version from the branch to cope with the narrow time frame. So the specs bundles still live in servicemix and it is easier to consolidate them into one common version again.
Christian 2017-12-22 10:14 GMT+01:00 Timothy Ward <[email protected]>: > I’m completely against having yet another bundle here when the other > bundles are the ones that will be be used by all the other projects. > > Well we already do have working spec bundles here at Aries (and have had > for quite some time), so is your proposal to remove them? > > That’s fine as a proposal, but there are a *lot* of fixes needed in > ServiceMix before the bundles are usable. None of the bundles offer (as far > as I can tell) offer the correct contract capability (or even any contract > at all), and they all seem to include a custom locator which isn’t part of > the original specification jar. This locator will have unknown effects on > specification implementations and may need to be removed. Are the > ServiceMix team really going to be ok with changes that radical, > particularly when they affect existing released artifacts? > > As Ray points out the licensing also needs to be fixed before any of the > bundles can be used in an OSGi reference implementation (which affects at > least Aries JAX-RS, Aries CDI, Aries Transaction Control and Aries JPA). > The reference implementations also need to be ready for the R7 release in > the next month or so. My original suggestion was a simple movement of the > existing bundles, do we have a different solution that’s workable in that > time-frame? > > Regards, > > Tim > > On 21 Dec 2017, at 18:16, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]<mailto:dkulp > @apache.org>> wrote: > > > > On Dec 21, 2017, at 1:00 PM, Raymond Auge <[email protected]< > mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]<mailto: > [email protected]>> wrote: > > Can I ask why the spec/api bundles that are provided by ServiceMix are not > usable? Could the ServiceMix api bundles be updated to make them usable? > > > Most of the ServiceMix jars violate the terms of the original license of > the specification artifacts they touch. They also violate the Apache > guidelines for repackaging such artifacts. > > I personally didn't have the stomach to repair the ones we needed in that > project so opted to fix them in Aries. > > If we could get them fixed then that might be a solution. > > > Submit a patch! I can get them applied there easily enough. I’m > completely against having yet another bundle here when the other bundles > are the ones that will be be used by all the other projects. > > Dan > > > > > > > - Ray > > > > I really would prefer not getting into a situation where we have a bunch > of project that are commonly used together starting to pull in multiple > versions or implementations of the same bundles. For example: CXF uses > and would pull in the org.apache.servicemix.specs.jaxrs-api-2.1 bundle > which would obviously result in multiple bundles exporting the same > package/versions. > > Dan > > > > On Dec 21, 2017, at 9:28 AM, Raymond Auge <[email protected]< > mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > I was thinking of proposing this very thing over the last few weeks. > > I had already deliberately pushed the CDI related spec jars and also the > spec jar for JAX-RS into an aries sub-group in maven in order to better > accommodate and reflect this very thing. > > So, I would be a big +1 for having these in a specific sub-project. > > - Ray > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Timothy Ward <[email protected]< > mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I’ve noticed that an increasing number of Aries projects are producing > wrapped spec jars (JPA, JAX-RS, CDI...). In general I think that this > is a > good thing, as few other Open Source projects package the jars with OSGi > contract metadata. > > I do wonder, however, if these spec jars should be provided by a > separate > Aries project, rather than scattered across multiple other projects. I > have > two main reasons for this. > > 1. It makes the code for packaging the spec jars harder to find in > source > control > > 2. It creates some non-obvious links between projects. It’s clear why > tx-control depends on JPA, but not why JAX-RS depends on CDI! > > The spec jars are mostly being put into a separate Maven group already. > I > would simply see this as a formalisation of that earlier decision. > > Thoughts? > > Tim > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > -- > *Raymond Augé* <http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/profile> > (@rotty3000) > Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com> > (@Liferay) > Board Member & EEG Co-Chair, OSGi Alliance <http://osgi.org> > (@OSGiAlliance) > > -- > Daniel Kulp > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> - http://dankulp.com/blog > Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com > > > > > -- > *Raymond Augé* <http://www.liferay.com/web/raymond.auge/profile> > (@rotty3000) > Senior Software Architect *Liferay, Inc.* <http://www.liferay.com> > (@Liferay) > Board Member & EEG Co-Chair, OSGi Alliance <http://osgi.org> > (@OSGiAlliance) > > -- > Daniel Kulp > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> - http://dankulp.com/blog > Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com<http: > //coders.talend.com/> > > -- -- Christian Schneider http://www.liquid-reality.de Computer Scientist http://www.adobe.com
