[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-136?page=comments#action_12433746 ] Richard S. Hall commented on FELIX-136: ---------------------------------------
The main difficulty is that I am loathe to include PDE-specific functionality into the core. If I add something, I would like to make it as simple possible. If it starts to become too complicated, then I would rather not add it at all. What would be better is if all of this functionality could somehow come from the launcher, so that PDE could just have its own launcher. This could be possible, but it requires more thought. > Add property to modify development-time bundle class path for Eclipse PDE > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
