Hi all, I have a couple of questions on the intended behavior of importing a remote service using Remote Service Admin. Specifically the intended behavior of importing a service that provides multiple interfaces, of which an individual user of the service typically only uses one.
1. Should all the exported interfaces of the remote service be present in the OSGi runtime of the user of the remote service? 2. Should the bundle holding the component using the remote service be able to 'see' all the exported interfaces, even though it uses only one of them? What I noticed is that if an endpoint lists multiple interfaces, that the bundle in which the user of the remote service contained must be able to 'see' all interfaces. Is that expected behavior? Is it desirable that the user of the service, which is unaware of the fact that the service is being resolved as a remote service, needs to import additional packages in order to resolve the interface(s) it does not use? I have prepared a small application [1] that reproduces what I have observed. I had a look in the R7 compendium specification and in section 122.5.7 I found the following phrase: Interfaces should be loadable by the bundle otherwise that bundle can not use the interface in its code. If an interface cannot be loaded then it can be skipped. Am I correct in drawing the conclusion that the RSA implementation should be able to initialize the proxy towards the remote service, even though the using bundle is only able to see a subset of the exported interfaces? Are there any suggestions on how a RSA implementation should 'skip' the loading? Best regards, Arnoud Glimmerveen [1] https://github.com/glimmerveen/osgi-rsa-test ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender and delete it. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of this email or its attachment(s) is forbidden. Thales Nederland BV will not accept liability for any damage caused by this email or its attachment(s). Thales Nederland BV is seated in Hengelo and is registered at the Chamber of Commerce under number 06061578. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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