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J.W. Janssen commented on FELIX-4427: ------------------------------------- [~fmeschbe]: ok, if it is necessary to use another plugin than that's fine, I think it is also needed because of the additional manifest sections that are needed. Anyway, the changes look fine to me, and all integration tests are still running :) > Create separate API bundle > -------------------------- > > Key: FELIX-4427 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-4427 > Project: Felix > Issue Type: Bug > Components: HTTP Service > Affects Versions: http-2.2.1 > Reporter: Felix Meschberger > Assignee: Felix Meschberger > > Currently the Servlet API is exported from the Http Service Bundle bundle and > the Jetty bundle. > In a typical web application a large number of bundles will typically wire to > the Servlet API and to the Http Service API. To detach the application from > the Http Service implementation, if would be usefull to have the APIs fully > detached from the implementations. > As such, I suggest we do not export the Servlet API from the Jetty bundle but > expect the Servlet API to be exported from somewhere else. > As the Http Service Bundle bundle is a convenience all-in-one bundle, it does > not hurt for this bundle to export the API. > To help solve the versioning problem, I actually think we should create our > own Servlet API bundle. The versioning problem is that the Servlet API 3.0 > spec is actually backwards compatible with Servlet 2.5 but chose to upgrade > the specification major version. Unfortunately that does not play well with > semantic versioning when applying the specification version to the API > exports (as is customarily but wrongly done). > So, our bundle should: > - be based on the Tomcat Servlet API library (since this is ASL2 licensed and > can easily be included) > - export Servlet API at version 2.6 (which is a custom compromise) as well as > version 3.0 > - also Provide-Capability for the Servlet API capability -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)