Hello Niall, it would be interesting for Eclipse consumers as well to get Apache bundles with Meta-info already applied.
Currently, the Meta-info is mostly added manually as part of the Eclipse Orbit project. I have had a brief look at your auto-generated MANIFEST for commons net, and found a few issues: http://people.apache.org/~niallp/commons-osgi/commons-net-1.5.0-SNAPSHOT -MANIFEST.MF 1. Import-Package: examples;version="1.5.0.SNAPSHOT" this is just wrong. The commons net deliverable jar should not import examples. 2. Import-Package: org.apache.commons.net.smtp this is also wrong though less destructive. commons.net.smtp is really exported and not imported. 3. Export-Package: org.apache.commons.net.smtp;uses:="org.apache.commons.net.io,org.apache. commons.net" It's useless to add a "uses" directive for packages that are in the same bundle. At Eclipse-Orbit, we've found problems with "uses" and decided to no longer use it. I guess that these should perhaps really be bug reports against the Bnd utility which autogenerated the Manifest; Tool: Bnd-0.0.227. But for me, it also shows that in the current stage it looks like the OSGi manifest still needs to be written by hand and not auto-generated. Anyways, if there is a plan to make a downloadable release of any commons packages with OSGi info added, I'd like to know. Thanks, -- Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm > -----Original Message----- > From: Niall Pemberton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:30 PM > To: Commons Developers List > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Support for OSGi > > I have created a JIRA ticket for the changes to the commons-parent pom > to add the bundle plugin: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMMONSSITE-23 > > I have also tested out the plugin by generating the jars/manifest for > all but three components: > http://people.apache.org/~niallp/commons-osgi/ > > I'll leave the ticket open for a few days - but unless there are > objections/issues raised I plan to apply the changes to > commons-parent. > > Niall > > On Dec 19, 2007 2:38 PM, Carsten Ziegeler > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
