Remember that "groupId" and "artifactId" are Maven concepts.
Not all software is built with Maven and therefore not every OSGi bundle has a groupId and artifactId. Nevertheless, OSGi requires all bundles to have some kind of identity. This is what Bundle-SymbolicName give us. Neil On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 10:30 AM Robert Munteanu via osgi-dev < osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org> wrote: > Hi Ali, > > On Wed, 2018-11-07 at 06:53 +0300, Ali Parmaksız via osgi-dev wrote: > > Hi all, > > This is a basic question. But i want to ask you why symbolic name is > > needed? > > Then i think that it is about bundle installation, bundle:install > > command > > is sometihng like that: > > bundle:install mvn:com.groupID/artifactId/version > > When i checked manifest.mf, symbolic name is com.groupID.artifactId > > Now this is my question, what is relation between symbolic name and > > bundle:insall? If symbolic name is not for this, then for what? > > The bundle's symbolic name is used mostly inside an OSGi container to > perform various operations. The name + version uniquely identify a > bundle inside the container. > > The fact that the bundle's symbolic name is set to groupId + artifactId > is a convention, and other projects could: > > - set the bundle symbolic name to artifactId ( Apache Felix does so ) > - select a completely different artifactId > > The command you referenced installs a bundle from maven coordinates, > but there are other ways to do so, notably: > > - installing from a local/remote jar file > - resolving + installing a bundle using a bundle symbolic name and > version, based on an OSGi index > > So to come back to your question - there relation between the symbolic > name and the specific install command you referenced is mostly by > convention. > > Hope this helps, > > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
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