Thanks to all of you who educated me yesterday about DS annotation inheritance in bnd. I implemented it and it works very well. However, I have an incremental challenge.
What I have here is a gaggle of web services. Most of the logic is common across them and lives in a base class, which now has @Reference injection to pick up things it needs from the larger environment, and activate/deactivate to manage lifecycle. However, I'd like to enable these services to come from disparate teams. Given the injunction to avoid cross-bundle inheritance of the DS annotations, I can't just export the package containing the base class from one bundle and then tell the teams to import and inherit. It only took about five minutes to think of the idea of putting each service in a fragment -- and then discard it, due to the fact that fragments can't carry DS metadata (according to Stack Overflow). Is there another trail to follow here, or is there just an inescapable dilemma between repeating DS annotations and decoupling the pieces? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org
