All,
A null pointer error is generated on deployment of a package in the
felix-framework-3.0.1 if a package in either Export-Package or Import-Package
has a "version=null".
I believe Felix should deploy the package and resolve the version number to the
default 0.0.0 and produce a Warning log message stating that "package x have a
version number =null, setting version package to 0.0.0".
One way this happens is when using variable substitution in the
<Export-Package> or <Import-Package> declarations of the maven-bundle-plugin.
An example from a pom.xml file:
<properties>
<myPackage.version>9.8.0-SNAPSHOT</myPackage.version>
</properties>
and then in the import directive:
myPackage;version="${mmmyPackage.version}",
Because of the mispelling, the plugin cannot resolve the substitution and
simply says version=null.
I believe the maven-bundle-plugin should halt and throw an error stating
"myPackage version is null" or something helpful like that.
v/r,
Mike Van
