Does the OSGi Alliance plan to release a version that can work with jdk 7 ? Or could we build one, as we used to provide the core specs before the alliance put them in maven central ?
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 15:27, Richard S. Hall <he...@ungoverned.org> wrote: > On 2/13/12 01:15 , Christopher BROWN wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Thanks Richard, I'll try that then. I'm guessing I should do that for all >> bundles (such as Felix EventAdmin, which I use) to be on the safe side (as >> from what I understand of the bug, it only shows up where this leads to >> the >> JVM getting confused between multiple possible method invocation targets >> due to stricter behavior ? >> > > I think only the framework is currently compiled to target jsr14...you > only need to recompile stuff that targets jsr14. > > -> richard > > > >> Thanks, >> Christopher >> >> >> >> On Monday, 13 February 2012, Richard S. Hall<he...@ungoverned.org> >> wrote: >> >>> On 2/12/12 15:57 , Christopher BROWN wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I followed the different threads on this subject, such as: >>>> https://mail.osgi.org/**pipermail/osgi-dev/2011-**August/003224.html<https://mail.osgi.org/pipermail/osgi-dev/2011-August/003224.html> >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/**us...@felix.apache.org/**msg11574.html<http://www.mail-archive.com/users@felix.apache.org/msg11574.html> >>>> >>>> My understanding is that if I target the latest OSGi version and >>>> multiple >>>> JDK versions, and if I want some (optional) bundles to use JDK7 >>>> features, >>>> then for the JDK7 deployments, I'm also going to have to recompile the >>>> >>> OSGi >> >>> framework instead of using the binaries for download from Apache (that >>>> might be a bit messy if it involves extracting source and rebuilding >>>> >>> JARs) >> >>> and all bundles that will run on that recompiled framework without the >>>> -jsr14 flag (because mixing and matching won't work)? >>>> >>>> Moreover, trying to understand fully the problem, the problem isn't JDK7 >>>> specifically, it's the jsr14 flag... If I recompiled Felix *without* >>>> this >>>> flag, even on JDK5 or JDK6, I *could* mix and match generic-signature >>>> methods compiled with pre-JDK7 JDKs (but not JDK1.4 or earlier >>>> >>> obviously), >> >>> is that right? >>>> >>>> If my understanding is correct, then could I as of now compile Felix >>>> with >>>> JDK6 and be sure that the issue with -jsr14 won't occur, and then add >>>> one >>>> or two JDK7 bundles later if required, without any further >>>> recompilation? >>>> >>> If you compile without the jsr14 flag, I believe everything will work >>> >> ok...jsr14 is only necessary if you are trying to target older JVMs. >> >>> Is there any documentation on building Felix 4.x in this way? >>>> >>> Just modify the target parameter in the framework pom.xml from jsr14 to >>> >> whichever Java platform you want... >> >>> -> richard >>> >>> Thanks, >>>> Christopher >>>> >>>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>> --------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>> users-unsubscribe@felix.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org >>> >>> >>> > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@felix.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org > > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ FuseSource, Integration everywhere http://fusesource.com
