Thanks for the background Claus - I completely understand how software can evolve in interesting ways.
It really threw me for a while when I was debugging because I was changing camel-core-osgi and re-deployig it to Karaf - but my changes wouldn’t show up. I had to build both camel-core-osgi and camel-blueprint and then update camel-blueprint to get my changes in - that’s when I came across this. Do you think this would be worth creating a JIRA for addressing? Do you think the containers have matured enough now that the duplication could be eliminated? I think it would be nice if everything that needed the classes from camel-core-osgi and camel-core-xml could just use the bundles, but I understand that may not be possible. > On Mar 13, 2016, at 1:04 AM, Claus Ibsen <claus.ib...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > OSGi is complicated, in fact a lot. > > Camel has been supporting osgi for almost all its lifetime. And back > then, only spring-dm was available for running camel on servicemix. > And then later blueprint came, and they needed to share some code, > hence core-osgi and core-xml. > > And back then the osgi containers was also more buggy and could not > work well when you had core-osgi and core-xml as separate bundles. > Also split packages problems and other endless problems. > > And then recently scr came along. > > Bottom line historical, osgi problems and whatnot makes the world as today. > > > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Quinn Stevenson > <qu...@pronoia-solutions.com> wrote: >> While I was trying to track down another issue, I discovered that the the >> dependencies on the classes in camel-core-osgi are handled differently by >> camel-blueprint and camel-scr. >> >> The camel-blueprint bundle includes the class files from camel-core-osgi >> (and camel-core-xml for that matter), while camel-scr declares a dependency >> on the package and uses the camel-core-osgi bundle. >> >> Shouldn’t the classes in camel-core-osgi be used the same way? >> >> > > > > -- > Claus Ibsen > ----------------- > http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus > Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
