Still wondering how they are going to be used...

Alin

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:02 AM, Stuart McCulloch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 18/03/2008, Alin Dreghiciu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  > I "especially" requested that from Peter K a while ago. Mainly my
>  > request was related to not export META-INF if you used * in
>  > Export-Package instruction, if I recall it correctly.
>
>
>  FYI, Peter has recently released a new version of Bnd, 0.0.239:
>
>    Allow export of specifically mentioned metadata packages like META-INF.
>    These are normally not exported but sometimes it is necessary. There is
>    no wildcard expansion for these dirs.
>
>  I'll try to get this into the next release of the bundleplugin (1.4.1)
>
>
>
>  The reasoning
>  > was related to how are you going to use such a package if there is
>  > more then one bundle that exports it as it has no name space related
>  > to it. To what exporter will your importing bundle get wired? More,
>  > your bundle that imports the META-INF will only be wired to one
>  > exporter as split packages are only possible with Require-Bundle.
>  >
>  >
>  > Alin
>  >
>  >
>  > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:46 AM, Guillaume Sauthier
>  > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > > Hi all
>  > >
>  > >  I've an issue with Bnd (in maven-bundle-plugin): I want to export the
>  > >  META-INF "package", because some files that are inside are searched by
>  > >  external applications (not to name them : JSF impl) and, even when I
>  > >  explicitely put Export-Package META-INF in my .bnd file, they never
>  > show
>  > >  up in my resulting Manifest.
>  > >
>  > >  I'm not 100% sure about that, but I never read that exporting that
>  > >  special entry was forbidden in OSGi. This is a best practice that is
>  > >  enforced by Bnd when building the bundle Manifest :)
>  > >
>  > >  Does someone has a trick to export the META-INF ? Or maybe that's
>  > >  forbidden ?
>  > >
>  > >  Cheers
>  > >  --Guillaume
>  > >
>  >
>
>
>
>  --
>  Cheers, Stuart
>

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