On Mon October 26 2009 10:24:10 am Daniel Kulp wrote:
> On Mon October 26 2009 10:09:44 am Alan D. Cabrera wrote:
> > I noticed that the ServiceMix bundles contain "exploded" copies of the
> > wrapped jars.  I wonder if there was a reason for that.  Just curious.
> 
> Well, I know that in a lot of cases, the FactoryFinder in the jar has to be
> replaced with an OSGi aware version.    That accounts for pretty much
> everything that uses the SPI stuff.   The others may be done that way for
> consistency.

Actually, it allows them to be used on the classpath as regular jars as well.   
Thus, we don't need separate jars for use inside the OSGI contains and the 
others for use for command line tools, javac, and such.


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