I haven't actually tried to send a mail from OSGi yet, but I can try that quite easily (and I will need to try it anyway). I'll try to do that this week and see if I can come up with some problems / requirements.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Rick McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking at the OSGi information that's used for the javamail jars, and > it appears to be currently incomplete, and possibly even incorrect, if I'm > interpreting the information correct. > Javamail is split between a spec component, which is in the Geronimo specs > tree, and a provider component that has its own source tree and build. The > specs component builds a specs jar. The javamail component builds a > provider jar (which has a dependency on the specs jar) and a mail uber-jar > that merges the spec and provider jars into a single jar file. > > Currently, only the javamail specs is building with OSGi information in the > manifest. Here is the manifest from the jar file: > Manifest-Version: 1.0 > Built-By: Rick McGuire > Created-By: Apache Maven Bundle Plugin > Bundle-License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt > Import-Package: javax.activation,javax.mail;version="1.4",javax.mail.e > vent;version="1.4",javax.mail.internet;version="1.4",javax.mail.searc > h;version="1.4",javax.mail.util;version="1.4" > Bnd-LastModified: 1214586504570 > Export-Package: javax.mail.search;uses:="javax.mail";version="1.4",jav > ax.mail.util;uses:="javax.mail.internet,javax.activation";version="1. > 4",javax.mail.event;uses:="javax.mail";version="1.4",javax.mail.inter > net;uses:="javax.activation,javax.mail,org.apache.geronimo.mail.util" > ;version="1.4",javax.mail;uses:="javax.mail.search,javax.mail.event,j > avax.activation";version="1.4" > Bundle-Version: 1.4.0.SNAPSHOT > Bundle-Name: geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec > Bundle-Description: Javamail 1.4 Specification > Build-Jdk: 1.5.0_11 > Private-Package: org.apache.geronimo.mail.handlers;version="1.4-SNAPSH > OT",org.apache.geronimo.mail.util;version="1.4-SNAPSHOT" > Bundle-DocURL: http://www.apache.org > Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2 > Bundle-Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation > Bundle-SymbolicName: org.apache.geronimo.specs.geronimo-javamail_1.4_s > pec > Implementation-Title: Apache Geronimo > Tool: Bnd-0.0.227 > Implementation-Version: 1.4-SNAPSHOT > > The classes in org.apache.geronimo.mail.handlers and > org.apache.geronimo.mail.util are defined as Private-Package. I'm not sure > this is correct, since the Providers jar file uses those classes. The > merged uber-jar can probably make these private, but I think the provider > requirement would not allow this. Am I correct here? > > Neither the javamail provider jar or mail uber-jar have any OSGi bundle > information. I suspect it needs to be added, since any application that > wishes to use javamail for more than just the javax.mail.* classes (e.g., to > send mail) would need to pull in either the provider bundle or the mail uber > jar bundle. > I'd like to take a stab at fixing this, but I'm not really what the > requirements are for the OSGi enablement. Do we have a documented set of > instructions anywhere? > > Rick > > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/
