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 -- Carsten Ziegeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
