On 27 August 2011 17:52, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using the POM at: > > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/sandbox/branches/doxia-ide-eclipse-with-tycho/org.apache.maven.doxia.eclipse.dependencies/pom.xml?revision=1162392&view=markup > > I am perplexed to get a very long Import-Package, including many > things that are embedded, plus things like com.apple.mrj. > > Should I just put in an explicit Import-Package of '*' in the POM, or > is there something more complex I've messed up here? > that example uses bundleplugin 2.1.0 which automatically imported every import for reasons of substitutability: http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-osgi-faq.html#ApacheFelixOSGiFAQ-Shouldabundleimportitsownexportedpackages%253F in recent versions (2.3.5) the bundleplugin (actually bnd, which does the hard work) takes a heuristic approach: http://www.aqute.biz/Bnd/Versioning - see "Substitution" section near the end of the page which means you shouldn't see as many imports using the defaults - see also: http://www.aqute.biz/Bnd/Format#import-package http://www.aqute.biz/Bnd/Format#export-package for ways to exclude imports, mark them as optional, or stop selected exports from being imported -- Cheers, Stuart
