Um I have an OSGi book I use, other than that ask on the email list here (or your new friends at LocationTech).
You can also hit up the equinox docs directly (http://eclipse.org/equinox/). -- Jody Garnett On Monday, 29 October 2012 at 3:51 PM, andrea antonello wrote: > > Andrea can you include OSGi manifest information into your jar? OSGi is > > already designed for loading and unloading things at runtime? > > > > > I sure could in fact. > Then I could programmatically load or unload the jars at runtime, right? > > Do you have any reference example to share? > I would love to run along that path. > > Thanks, > Andrea > > > -- > > Jody Garnett > > > > On Sunday, 28 October 2012 at 6:16 AM, andrea antonello wrote: > > > > Pong ;) > > > > > > Peng, thanks for your reply and sorry for my delay :) > > > > Andrea, could you describe the problem, why you don't like to export > > every single jar in the manifest? I seems to me that you are trying to > > resolve 3rd-party transitive dependencies and add these dynamically if > > you build the plugin. > > > > > > My problem is that I want users to be able to add jars to the plugin > > ideally at any moment. > > Right now the spatial toolbox loads them into the classpath to extract > > annotated modules and present them in the Toolbox. > > One can load new jars as he goes. > > > > In the case in which I do not spawn a new JVM, hence supplying the > > jars location as classpath, I have not been able to get everything > > loaded into the classpath of the plugin. It is always quite a mess to > > get things outside the plugins into the plugin. :) > > > > Ideally it should be possible to place jars in a plugin, restart uDig, > > and have each of them available. > > I found no way to do so, without adding them to the manifest. I used > > buddy policies between plugin in the past, but nothing that allows me > > what I really need. Expose each jar that is inside (or added later) > > from a plugin as dependency. > > > > 2012/10/23 andrea antonello <andrea.antone...@gmail.com > > (mailto:andrea.antone...@gmail.com)>: > > > > So my final question is: do you know if there is a way to create a > > plugin, that exports all the contained jars, without the need of > > defining them in the manifest? > > > > > > Just a suggestion : Try to create a eclipse plugin from jars (new -> > > other -> Plug-in Development -> Plug-in from Existing jar) > > > > - select the jars you want in your bundle > > - on the wizard page Plug-in Project Properties you can select "unzip > > the JAR archives into the project" (this will create packages with > > extracted class files and adds all packages to the Export-Package: > > setting in the manifest. > > - no need to add jars to classpath anymore. > > > > Questions: > > Where are the jars from (maven dependency, manual copy task)? > > Do you plan to include 3rd-Party dependencies or just use the > > import-packages directive in the manifest.mf ? (I would prefer later, > > so so don't have to care about who is the "provider" of the > > depenencies (e.g. com.springsource.xxx (http://com.springsource.xxx) , > > org.apache.xxx (http://org.apache.xxx) or whoever). > > > > do you have set up a branch in your github clone we can go over and > > check the settings? > > > > > > As you can see from my above answer, these last do not apply. > > I am not trying to create a plugin from libraries, I need something > > way more exotic :) > > > > Cheers and thanks, > > Andrea > > > > > > Cheers, Frank > > _______________________________________________ > > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > > http://udig.refractions.net > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > > http://udig.refractions.net > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > > http://udig.refractions.net > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) > http://udig.refractions.net > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel > >
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