On 7.9.2011 г. 12:35 ч., Felix Meschberger wrote: > Hi, > > On 07.09.2011 08:15, Valentin Valchev (JIRA) wrote: >> WebConsole bundle should export packages from embedded jars >> Currently webconsole bundle (non bare variant) contains build-in org.json, >> commons fileupload, commons io, osgi service tracker. These packages should >> be exported because they will be needed when we move SCR & Deployment >> Packages plugins in separate jars. > I always wanted ot have a single web console plugin with all > dependencies included for simple deployment. Which is why these > dependencies (particuarly org.json, commons fileupload and commons io) > are included in the web console... > > Now, this may not be best OSGi practice .... > > Now, exporting this API from the web console sounds like wrong to me. > > Thus I suggest, we change gears and > > * drop the full bundle build 1+ > * promote the bare build to be the official build 1+ > * thus import org.json, commons fileupload, and commons io 1+ (though we might need OSGi-enabled org.json bundle. > * we may still embed and not export Service Tracker (as could the new > bundles if required) because -1 - why embedding? All OSGi frameworks provide it. Even it it is not provided by the system bundle, you can install a bundle that provides the package. And I think that tracker is widely used, so it could be also imported. > AFAICT there is no need to share these classes. > > Finally to mark this change, we might target the next release to be 4.0. Well it makes sense. People need to update how they use web console and yes - the change is radical, so major version update will warn them that update will not be trivial. > > WDYT ? > > Regards > Felix > >
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