My point is, if you use the extension you can't use a R5,R6 or R7 feature with that component.
Then we have things like FELIX-5775 where the code involved got so complicated because of the proprietary support that I could find no way to make this work when the extensions are used. Regards Carsten David Jencks wrote > As I recall, the behavior of all the extensions are available in the R6 > version through the use of the ds ext annotations which get compiled into > Felix namespace xml attributes by bnd. What exactly are you proposing > removing? > > I don’t think the top level xml namespaces offer much value but I’m not sure > the code supporting them is complex enough to worry about. For the most part > I think the behaviors of the extensions are fairly useful so I’d be reluctant > to remove them. Making an osgi server that uses them not able to upgrade to > r7 is a pretty big restriction. > > David Jencks > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 16, 2018, at 7:45 AM, Carsten Ziegeler <cziege...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> I would like to simplify the upcoming R7 implementation of Declarative >> Services and drop the support for the proprietary extensions. >> >> Currently the implementation supports two additional namespaces for the >> component XML. The oldest one allows to define an updated method before >> it became part of the R4.2 release. So this has only been used >> temporarily until that release became official. >> >> Similar, there is a special namespace for the R4.3 release which can be >> used to indicate that the components might return additional service >> properties from the activate method. This feature has been discussed at >> that time in the OSGi expert group and was not rejected. While there >> might be some people using this, this is tied to the 4.3 specification. >> So as soon as you want to use R5 or R6 features or in the future R7 >> features, this proprietary extension is not available to your component. >> >> My suggestion is we drop these things for the R7 version and simplify >> the implementation in some areas. If users want to use those features >> the R6 implementation is still there to be used and we can maintain it. >> >> Regards >> Carsten >> -- >> Carsten Ziegeler >> Adobe Research Switzerland >> cziege...@apache.org -- Carsten Ziegeler Adobe Research Switzerland cziege...@apache.org
