A package is a java package. OSGi is VERY java package centered. The
plugin can use wild cards for packages names in Import-Package,
Export-Package, and Private-Package.
If you tell the plugin which packages from the classpath (the maven
dependencies) should be inside your bundle using Export-Package or
Private-Package then the plugin will caclulate the missing parts and
make an Import-Package header automatically.
For example:
Export-Package: com.acme.*
This will include and export all packages on the classpath that start
with com.acme. The IMport-Package header will depend on what those
classes refer to.
Kind regards,
Peter Kriens
GL> On Tue, January 2, 2007 8:20 pm, Richard S. Hall wrote:
>> Generally speaking, the plugin will only include into your bundle JAR
>> file the packages you list in <Export-Package> or <Private-Package>. All
>> other packages will be imported. So, if you list packages from Eclipse
>> inside of these declarations, then you are telling the plugin to embed
>> them.
GL> I still don't follow.
GL> What is a "package" in the above explanation? An OSGI bundle? A maven
GL> dependency? A Java package?
GL> Or to ask the question another way, how does my maven bundle project
GL> depend on another Eclipse OSGI bundle / plugin, without importing that
GL> plugin into my maven bundle project?
GL> I see no distinction between maven dependencies and OSGI dependencies in
GL> the docs, thus the confusion.
GL> Regards,
GL> Graham
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