On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 2:06 PM Steinar Bang <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>>>> Tatu Saloranta <[email protected]>:
>
> > Could you expand a little bit on this? Would this help by reducing
> > need to indicate artifact type (by being defined in one of uber-parent
> > poms)? Or is there some downside(s) to indicating packaging type in
> > pom.xml (aside from one extra line)?
>
> I know I've had some tools confused by packaging bundle, but I can no
> longer remember which ones.  I think it was earlier versions of eclipse
> and m2e, but I can't remember for sure.
>
> When packaging became jar, all of the issues went away.  I don't think
> it is an issue any longer, but once I got it working I thought it looked
> tidier.
>
> (not a big thing.  Today either way works)
>

Ah ok.

The reason Jackson components are defined to be released as bundles is
because AFAIK that is what is required for proper functioning within OSGi
container. I was under impression this is not true for regular jars,
although relevant metadata can of course be included under META-INF/MANIFEST

-+ Tatu +-

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