I think for #4 it would make sense to use two interfaces.

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 01:58, David Jencks <[email protected]> wrote:
> I went ahead and committed this, let me know if there are any problems.  It 
> works fine for me so far....
>
> I found the answer to (1) and (2) (feature event exports them)  I think.... 
> haven't had time to update for (3) and I'm still wondering about (4).
>
> thanks
> david jencks
>
> On Mar 4, 2011, at 5:02 PM, David Jencks wrote:
>
>> I spent a little time moving the jaxb tree for features.xml into features 
>> core and getting it to work with features core. (and then a lot of time 
>> trying to figure out how to get it onto my github branch.  I think it's on 
>> the "master" branch at https://github.com/djencks/karaf/branches)
>>
>> I have a few questions.
>>
>> 1. Why are the feature structure interfaces (Feature, BundleInfo, etc)  
>> exported from feature core at all?
>>
>> 2. If they really need to be exported, is there a good reason to use 
>> interfaces rather than the jaxb classes?
>>
>> 3. The schema allows 0..unbounded details elements since its an optional 
>> member of a choice group.  The original classes only allow one detail.  I 
>> guess we want to only allow one detail element?
>>
>> 4. There's only one Feature interface for both a complete feature (top level 
>> in features element ) and a dependency feature inside a feature element.  
>> The second one is more of a feature-ref since it doesn't have any actual 
>> contents for the feature.  I think it might be reasonable to have two 
>> interfaces so as to distinguish these more easily.
>>
>> Does anyone want to review this or should I just go ahead and commit it?
>>
>> thanks
>> david jencks
>>
>
>



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