Hi, Thanks for the reply...see the inline comments :-)
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 11:46 -0500, Richard S. Hall wrote: > > Thijs Metsch wrote: > > Hi @all, > > > > I was wondering about the default behavior of the maven-bundle-plugin. > > Currently the following is stated: > > > > * <Export-Package> is assumed to be "<Bundle-SymbolicName>.*", unless > > <Private-Package> is specified, then <Export-Package> is assumed to be > > empty. > > * <Private-Package> is assumed to be empty by default. > > * <Import-Package> is assumed to be "*", which imports everything > > referred to by the bundle content, but not contained in the bundle. > > > > Seems kind of odd to me. Can somebody give the reasons for this > > decision? > > > > If you are converting your existing JAR file to have OSGi manifest > metadata, then the only conversion possible is to export everything and > import everything else. > > You would only do this if you were simply trying to offer OSGi > compatible manifest headers, but were not interested in actually making > your JAR file into a bundle that leverages OSGi. If you are really > creating OSGi bundles, then you should be specific about these headers. Okay that is the information I needed :-) Make the use case of writing new bundle with maven-bundle-plugin a little bit harder :-/ > > E.g. if I wanna have a bundle which does not export anything. I could > > state Private-Package to be * but that results in a MANIFEST.MF which > > states that all kind of packages are private (also java.* osgi.* etc). > > Which is not what you would expect. You can also state Export-Package to > > be empty but thats kind of odd to when you then think that you have an > > empty xml-tag in your pom.xml > > > > Just set your private package to "your.package.root.*". That is also an option :-) > > > Another question is how I can specify version ranges to imported > > packages? > > > > Just like normal, I believe: > > <Import-Package>org.osgi.framework; > version=[1.4.0,2.0.0)</Import-Package> That does not work, was my first thought too :-) -> It results in something really weird: <Import-Package>com.sun.vjsc,org.osgi.service.component;version=[1.4.0,2.0.0)</Import-Package> results in: Import-Package: 2.0.0),com.sun.vjsc,org.osgi.service.component;version^ ="[1.4.0"^ > -> richard > > > Cheers, > > > > -Thijs Cheers, -Thijs --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
