Add property to modify development-time bundle class path for Eclipse PDE
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Key: FELIX-136
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-136
Project: Felix
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Framework
Reporter: Richard S. Hall
Assigned To: Richard S. Hall
Priority: Minor
Eclipse PDE uses "framework launchers" for lauching arbitrary OSGi frameworks.
Felix in combination with its "reference:" protocol is successfully able to be
launched by Eclipse PDE, but it is not ideal since it requires that the project
be structured with everything in the root directory. Since projects are
typically organized around bin/ and classes/ directories, this is less than
perfect.
Equinox supports a special property to modify the bundle's class path at
development time to alleviate this situation. Such a property could also be
added to Felix to improve integration with Eclipse PDE.
For example, DirectoryRevision could be modified to search for a configuration
property named ${bundle-symbolic-name}.classpath and could prepend this value
to the existing manifest header. To my understanding, this is similar to the
approach used by Equinox.
If we implement this, then we should probably add another property to
enable/disable development-time features, so that people cannot use this
property unless the framework is being used in development mode.
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