Can carbon-parent be the parent of non-osgi jars as well? If so should we
call it carbon-componet-parent?
On Nov 24, 2015 11:13 AM, "Manuri Amaya Perera" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have created a doc[1] on
> 1. What configurations should be allowed to be changed by component
> developers (may have default values or not)
> 2. What should have default values which cannot be overridden without
> redeclaring the plugin inside the bundle
>
> Please share your thoughts on this.
>
> And this[2] is the documentation I created on the usage of this approach.
>
> I have built C5, carbon-transport, product-mss, product-gw with this.
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/a/wso2.com/spreadsheets/d/1EegtaHbrSVQ1eJf75z9p03PiEkFguCytAYmyQCDSsjI/edit?usp=sharing
> [2]
> https://docs.google.com/a/wso2.com/document/d/1468M7L2vHcJQ-4oChb_5wBpRECNbUX3Om31MFzpZ_nc/edit?usp=sharing
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Manuri Amaya Perera <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> + architecture@
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Manuri Amaya Perera <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Currently for each carbon component's pom file we need to include the
>>> maven bundle plugin. Some of the bundle plugin configuration values such as
>>> group id, artifact id and version are repetitively used in each of these
>>> components(eg: [1])
>>>
>>> We can avoid this repetition by including the bundle plugin inside
>>> carbon-parent pom[2] instead of having it inside each component.
>>> Here we have to include bundle plugin inside build/plugins[3] section of
>>> carbon-parent pom and then the plugin configuration will be inherited by
>>> child modules and any configuration that needs to be overridden could be
>>> mentioned as properties inside child poms.
>>> This will make maintenance easier and reduce code.
>>>
>>> There is also a disadvantage with parameterizing the bundle plugin. That
>>> is, some headers such as Bundle-NativeCode must have a value if that
>>> element is put in the plugin configuration[4], otherwise the build
>>> fails.Therefore we cannot have this inside carbon-parent pom's bundle
>>> plugin configuration as child modules may not have a value for it.
>>> This is the only header we've found out which causes this problem. And I
>>> could not find any usage of this header in a WSO2 repository. Therefore if
>>> this header is not going to be used we can safely remove it from
>>> carbon-parent pom and proceed with parameterizing the bundle plugin.
>>>
>>> Your ideas on moving the bundle-plugin configuration to carbon-parent
>>> pom and parameterization will be highly appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> ​[1] https://github.com/wso2/carbon-kernel/blob/5.0.x/core/pom.xml​
>>> ​[2] ​https://github.com/wso2/carbon-parent/blob/master/pom.xml
>>> [3] https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Plugins
>>> [4] http://bnd.bndtools.org/heads/bundle_nativecode.html
>>>
>>>
>>> ​Thank you.​
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> *Manuri Amaya Perera*
>>>
>>> *Software Engineer*
>>>
>>> *WSO2 Inc.*
>>>
>>> *Blog: http://manuriamayaperera.blogspot.com
>>> <http://manuriamayaperera.blogspot.com>*
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Manuri Amaya Perera*
>>
>> *Software Engineer*
>>
>> *WSO2 Inc.*
>>
>> *Blog: http://manuriamayaperera.blogspot.com
>> <http://manuriamayaperera.blogspot.com>*
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> *Manuri Amaya Perera*
>
> *Software Engineer*
>
> *WSO2 Inc.*
>
> *Blog: http://manuriamayaperera.blogspot.com
> <http://manuriamayaperera.blogspot.com>*
>
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