Hi Am 10.06.2013 um 19:21 schrieb Carsten Ziegeler:
> Hi, > > the current version of the scr tooling (maven scr plugin, ant task) has > grown over time. We already had a major refactoring due to the drop of > support the javadoc tags. > > Now, looking at the code and the features, I would like to discuss to drop > some more and create a new 2.0 release: > > a) Current we support inheritance between components, this allows to > inherit properties, references etc. from a super class or interface. While > this sounds nice, the problem is that the base class might be different at > runtime than at build time. So the only situation where inhertiance works > reliable is by inheriting properties from an interface (due to semantic > versioning) or if the base class is in the same bundle. However the latter > can't be ensured by the SCR tooling as at the point the scr tools run, the > final artifact has not been build yet. > The DS annoations from the spec don't allow inheritance for this reason. So > I think we can think about dropping thsi. +1 > > b) In order to support incremental builds we switched some time ago from > generating a single large descriptor to separate descriptor files. This is > now the default. I'm wondering whether we need the support for a single > large xml descriptor file at all. If we drop this feature we could clean up > a lot of code which is currently related to distinguishing between the two > modes. +1 Regards Felix > > WDYT? > > Regards > Carsten > > -- > Carsten Ziegeler > [email protected]
