"Bennett, Timothy (JIS - Applications)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/26/2005 10:25:23 AM:
> IMO, the big question isn't whether we use Ant and/or Maven2 alpha/beta > to compile/jar, but the issues that McAffer keeps bringing up, and > that's project/framework/bundle organization -- that is one > project/bundle. Not sure where I kept bringing that up but for the record, Eclipse uses a very simple structure of one Eclipse project per bundle and building one project/bundle at a time and driving the build from the bundle metadata (e.g., manifest.mf and build.properties). I'm not sure how this maps to a M2 project (if there is such a thing) or any other kind of project but so far simple => happy. We also have not bothered to make a complex repository structure. All bundles are peers in the repo since they are all just bundles (even the framework). There is one issue. OSGi's Import-Package mechanism makes it very easy to setup circularities between bundles. The cirucularity can be immediate or via a long chain of bundle dependencies. The nature of the cycle can theoretically change from build to build as different (versions of) bundles are involved. To date we have been relatively lucky in avoiding these (we mostly use Require-Bundle) and where needed we can break cycles using local "shell jars". I'd be very interested to know how/if M2 resolves this issue as it is bound to show up in Felix or other projects using Felix. Jeff
