Sounds good to me. -> richard
On 11/7/11 4:46, Felix Meschberger wrote:
Hi all, The OSGi Compendium specification is taking shape and it will include a specification for Declarative Services annotations for build-tools. This is the same turf as we operate on with the SCR maven plugin (and ant task). Going forward I see the following changes, we might want to apply to the SCR plugin: * drop support for JavaDoc Tags. These have been deprecated for some time now and I think going forward we should drop them. Not the least to make the plugin code simpler. * change the retention level of our own annotations from source level to class file. This would bring the retention level in line with the upcoming OSGi annotations and would allow us ot uniformely read the annotations from the class files. * Add support for the new OSGi standard annotations, of course. * Consider supportig mixing Felix and standard annotations in the same class (not a requirement but might be helpful -- or confusing ;-) ) * Replace the use of QDox for reading annotations by a class file annotation reader, such as the BND library. * For backwards compatibility keep the support for the intermediate XML files (OSGI-INF/scr-plugin/scrinfo.xml) we used for inheritance support. But in the future these files will not be generated any longer and be replaced by direct class file reading of extended classes. As a consequence of these changes, of course, the SCR maven plugin etc. would be released with an increased major version number due to broken backwards compatibilty (dropping JavaDoc tag support). Existing Java annotation use and existing compiled and bundled code keeps being supported. We also, at the moment, keep our own annotations because they have a number of advantages IMHO over the standard annotations: - support class inheritance and abstract components - have separate @Service annotations (with a different default for service exposure) - have separate @Property annotations with simpler and less cluttering syntax - integrated Metatype descriptor support WDYT ? Regards Felix
