I suspect that the Jars are now available as OSGi bundles; do you know of specific ones that are not?
Thanks. -Marshall On 7/19/2011 10:24 AM, Richard Eckart de Castilho wrote: > Hi Marshall, > > I am very interested in this. Some time back I mostly gave up on packaging > UIMA components as OSGi bundles because of this. If you do not bundle all > jars (*jikes*) and use package imports instead, the questions is: where do > the dependencies come from? Who prepares the bundles and who installs them? > Many JARs are not available as OSGi bundles. > > -- Richard > > Am 19.07.2011 um 16:13 schrieb Marshall Schor: > >> I'll take a look at the OSGi build. >> >> -Marshall >> >> On 7/17/2011 12:16 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: >>> Since this is (I think) the first time we're releasing the OSGi packaging >>> of the >>> annotators, I think some work on their license/notice files might be needed, >>> because: >>> >>> - there are duplicate License files - one at the top level, and one in the >>> META_INF directory >>> - both of these are the plain vanilla license files. For projects which are >>> incorporating other libraries which are under other than the Apache v 2.0 >>> license, those licenses have to be included. >>> - the NOTICE file is present in the META_INF directory, but is the plain >>> one, >>> rather than the project specific one. >>> >>> Finally, I wonder if the OSGi packaging strategy is correct - in that it >>> "bundles" every dependency into the OSGi file. This certainly makes the >>> file >>> easier to use, but if a user uses 2 OSGi components from UIMA, won't there >>> be a >>> lot of unnecessary duplication (or does OSGi notice this and avoid it >>> somehow)? >>> I'm not sure of an alternative, but I do recall that OSGi allows for >>> dependencies on other packages; perhaps that could be useful? >>> >>> -Marshall >>> >>> On 7/15/2011 8:29 AM, Tommaso Teofili wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> I've prepared the new RC (4) for UIMA Addons release. >>>> >>>> The following is a list of issues addressed in this release: >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310570&version=12316093 >>>> >>>> The source zip and binary files are available here: >>>> http://people.apache.org/~tommaso/uima-addons-2.3.1-rc4 >>>> >>>> SVN Tag Checkout: >>>> svn co >>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/addons/tags/uima-addons-2.3.1-rc4/ >>>> >>>> Please cast your vote for UIMA Addons 2.3.1 release: >>>> >>>> [ ] +1 Approve the release >>>> [ ] -1 Veto the release (please provide specific comments) >>>> [ ] 0 Don't care >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Tommaso >>>>
