Hi all,
we have very basic OSGi support currently. We simply export all
the packages we have and don't use any other OSGi features.
This works well for anything we do, expect the places where we
try to access classes by class name, e.g. to load custom factories
via Class.forName(...). Most users will just be happy with that.
Such calls do not work in an OSGi environment because the class we
try to load is not on "our" class path.
In OSGi this is done via services and we need to use them if we are running
in an OSGI environment.
Anyway, OpenNLP needs to work with and without OSGi.
I suggest that we make OSGi an optional dependency and write code
which can detect if the OSGi classes are there or not.
To instantiate a user class we would need to do something like this:
- Try to load via Class.forName(...)
- If cannot be found, check if running in an OSGi environment
- If so try to get an OSGi service which provides an instance to the
user class
Any opinions?
Jörn
