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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:46:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: Support for OSGi
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What a great idea this would be nice for me as RCP developer because 
currently I have to create my
own bundles from the commons-packages.

Tom

Carsten Ziegeler schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> the products of commons are highly used throughout many projects.
>
> It would be great, if the projects here at Apche Commons could help
> those projects that are using OSGi.
>
> OSGi is based around the concept of a bundle - a bundle is a jar file
> with additional meta data like the packages it exports and a list of
> external packages it is using (please forgive me if I'm simplifying here
> too much).
>
> As many projects are using artifacts from Apache Commons, they need the
> specific jars as bundles. This is most often done by creating so called
> wrapper bundles: these are jars that have the same contents as the
> original library with the addition of the required meta data.
> You can find several examples here:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/felix/trunk/commons/
>
> Now, it would be great, if the projects here at Apache Commons would
> already provide artifacs that can be directly used in an OSGi environment.
>
> All that has to be done is adding some entries to the manifest. This is
> usually a list of imported packages, a list of exported packages, a
> symbolic name for the bundle and a version. (There are some more but
> these are the most important ones).
>
> Adding these entries can be done by hand (not recommended) or with tools
> automatically. For example the Apache Felix maven bundleplugin requires
> just some lines of configuration and that's it.
>
> It would be great if some of the projects here could add these meta data
> as part of their next release. This will make the life of all projects
> using OSGi much much easier.
>
> So if you're interested in helping us, just let us know. We would be
> happy to make the required changes to the poms or whatever needs to be
> done. I cc'ed the Felix dev list as some Felix developers might not be
> subscribed to the commons dev list, so please keep them cross posted.
>
> Thanks
> Carsten
>   


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