No, package admin may not be available on all future framework implementations of R4.3. I have no plans to remove it from equinox because I know it is used by many clients and I don't want to break them. I would hope that most framework implementations would have the same concern and will keep an implementation of PackageAdmin around for a long time.
I'm not sure I understand the seriousness of this "breaking change" though. There is an alternative way of doing this as BJ suggests. Also, PackageAdmin may have been a mandatory core service in OSGi R4.2 specification, but it has not always been so. Previous releases of the core specifications made the PackageAdmin service optional. Although I don't think there is any reasonable core framework implementation available that does not provide PackageAdmin at the moment.
I'm not sure I understand the seriousness of this "breaking change" though. There is an alternative way of doing this as BJ suggests. Also, PackageAdmin may have been a mandatory core service in OSGi R4.2 specification, but it has not always been so. Previous releases of the core specifications made the PackageAdmin service optional. Although I don't think there is any reasonable core framework implementation available that does not provide PackageAdmin at the moment.
Tom
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Date: 02/22/2011 10:46AM
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Subject: Re: [equinox-dev] Replacement for PackageAdmin.getBundlesBJ, could you confirm that the old API will still be available in all frameworks... otherwise this would be a serious breaking change for existing clients.
Sent from my BlackBerryThere is no replacement for that method. You can just grovel over the bundles to find this information. Seems like a job for a utility class...
That method was not a good fit for packageadmin anyway since it nothing to do with the wiring state of the bundles.
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From: Gunnar Wagenknecht <[email protected]>
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Date: 2011/02/22 07:08
Subject: [equinox-dev] Replacement for PackageAdmin.getBundles
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Hi,
What's the recommended replacement for
org.osgi.service.packageadmin.PackageAdmin.getBundles(String, String)? I
was looking for a similar method in the new org.osgi.framework.wiring
package. But it appears that there is none. I haven't checked the
changes for M6, though.
-Gunnar
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