On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Sahoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > META-INF/services [1] is used a lot in non-OSGi environment as an SPI > mechanism. e.g., JAXP, StAX, JPA, etc use this facility. What is the best > way to handle them when we migrate such code to run in OSGi environment? One > solution is to change the library (service provider) to make the services > available as OSGi services in the service registry and change all clients to > use the service registry to look up. But, this requires changing the library > code as well as client code. It's probably easy to change the library, but > changing all the clients is a bit tough ask. Is there any alternative? Why > does the OSGi spec not have any special treatment for META-INF/services > file?
Possibly turning the questions around somewhat, here's one approach to making the spec JARs behave in an OSGi environment: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/2008/05/jee-specs-in-osgi.html /niklas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
