Hi Julian, We should put the osgi metadata directly into the modules as they „just“ enhance the manifest. Additional JARs would only increase the complexity.
Sebastian > Am 07.10.2019 um 15:58 schrieb Julian Feinauer <j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>: > > Hi all, > > as some of you may have notices from Twitter or Slack I am currently working > on integrating PLC4X into OSGi and especially Karaf. > I get a lot of help from the Karaf guys and also Lukasz joined the effort to > get this done, finally : ) > > For the Drivers, there is one “central” question. > Do we want the Driver jars to also be OSGi-Bundles or do we prefer separate > jars with a 1-1 relationship as OSGi bundles. > Other projects, like Netty do it all in one > (https://netty.io/wiki/new-and-noteworthy-in-4.0.html). > In fact, the only difference is a “META-INF/MANIFEST.MF” file which is there > additionally. So it hurts nobody but helps OSGi users. > > What are your thoughts on that? > > Julian