Yes, everything that is exported is API and API should obviously never be obfuscated. All other things should be obfuscatable given that you take into consideration what then no longer is possible (e.g. reflection) Best regards,
Wim On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Peter Kriens <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree with Hal ... obfuscating seems not very useful nowadays. > > That said, OSGi does give you the guarantee that not-exported classes are > private and could be obfuscated (as long as you do not have external > references like Spring of course). And well designed bundles should only > export very few packages. > > Kind regards, > > Peter Kriens > > > > On 15 jul 2009, at 02:58, Scott Selvia wrote: > > >> I'm trying to find information regarding obfuscation and osgi bundles. >> From what I have read it seems that: >> >> >> >> 1. Obfuscation breaks an osgi bundle since the packages are renamed and >> the manifest entries don't match. >> >> 2. Then another option is to not rename the package names >> >> 3. Finally, create a library jar that is obfuscated and then create an >> osgi bundle that uses the obfuscated jar. >> >> >> >> The first item I can understand, the second item I've read works but kind >> of defeats the purpose of obfuscation. The third item I did not think would >> work, since the library jar would not have the osgi bundle entries in the >> manifest and then could not be loaded via the osgi framework. The library >> could be part of the classpath used when starting the framework but then >> that takes the flexibility out of the picture. >> >> >> >> So is there an option to obfuscate an osgi bundle? Any white papers, >> how-to's, etc... would be appreciated >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. >> >> http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_BR_life_in_synch_062009_______________________________________________ >> OSGi Developer Mail List >> [email protected] >> https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > [email protected] > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev >
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