So what is our message to end users?
Should they not use Java 7 at the moment?
If the R5 spec comes soon and works that may be acceptable but is not
ideal regarding the resons I wrote.
Christian
Am 27.04.2012 16:10, schrieb Richard S. Hall:
On 4/27/12 09:40 , Christian Schneider wrote:
In Karaf we currently include the osgi spec jars in karaf.main which
is not such a good solution as they are mixed with impl classes.
So for karaf internally as well as for end users of OSGi developing
on Java 7 it makes sense to have an OSGi spec that is compatible with
Java 7 really soon.
Just to be clear, the spec is compatible, just the delivered JARs need
to be recompiled.
I will create such a project in
in karaf for the mean time but I would prefer if we could move this
to Felix. End users would expect such an API jar rather from felix
then from Karaf.
We won't release OSGi artifacts as stand alone. We did that in the
past and it caused us more problems that what it was worth.
Even with R5 out it might be a good idea to provide a 4.x spec that
is compatible to Java 7 as developers can use it to express that they
target their development for an OSGi 4.x framework.
Especially when using the maven bundle plugin this is important as it
creates the import package version out of the maven artifact version.
So what do you think about providing the OSGi 4.3 specs in Felix?
My vote: -1.
-> richard
Christian
Am 27.04.2012 15:15, schrieb Richard S. Hall:
On 4/27/12 07:33 , Guillaume Nodet wrote:
Does the OSGi Alliance plan to release a version that can work with
jdk 7 ?
Or could we build one, as we used to provide the core specs before the
alliance put them in maven central ?
I think the R5 JARs will target Java 5, once they are released,
which should be fairly soon.
-> richard
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Christian Schneider
http://www.liquid-reality.de
Open Source Architect
Talend Application Integration Division http://www.talend.com
