2013/6/6 Agemo Cui <[email protected]> > > > On 6/6/13 5:21 AM, Chetan Mehrotra wrote: > >> I have at times also struggled with DS when I moved from Blueprint. Within >> a Bundle if there are some internal services which are used by various DS >> Components *within* that bundle then is it fine to >> >> 1. Register these internal services as DS components but with classes >> which >> are not part of Export-Package list i.e. private classes >> > Yes (at least) for Apache SCR. >
Do you mean, this doesn't or might not work with other DS implementations? > But other bundles are not really prevented from using this service by this > method. > The service still can be fetched, and be used through reflection. > > I don't think this is a problem - you can do all kinds of tricks using reflection etc. However, I'm not sure if you're really able to get the service as ServiceReference.isAssignableTo is called and if I understand this correctly, this will fail as the client bundle does not see the private class under which the service is registered. Carsten
