Agree, use dynamic-import might be useful for others who would use geronimo spec api in their OSGI environment. For Geronimo itself, it should not be required, as I remember that Plugin Installer would install all the required components, and dependencyManager would handle the bundles starting.
2010/4/9 Jarek Gawor <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > I'm beginning to think that we should convert any optional imports in > our spec jars to dynamic imports. The issue is that the optional > imports are resolved when the bundle is resolved. So if the exporting > bundle is not there at the time the importing bundle is resolved the > optional imports are not wired. And the imports stay unwired even if > the exporting bundle is installed later on. With dynamic imports the > exporting bundle could be installed before or after the importing > bundle is resolved. > > Take the management spec as an example. The management spec has an > optional dependency on ejb spec. So for everything to resolve ok, I > need to install ejb spec, jaxrpc spec, and serlvet spec (ejb needs > jaxprc and jaxrpc needs servlet). With the dynamic imports we could > install the management spec without the ejb spec. And once/if the ejb > spec would be installed, the mejb part of the management spec would > work just fine (without bundle refreshes or restarts). > > Jarek > -- Ivan
