Also maybe the metatype service specification could be used https://docs.osgi.org/specification/osgi.cmpn/7.0.0/service.metatype.html
Dirk Fauth <dirk.fa...@googlemail.com> schrieb am Fr., 22. Jan. 2021, 16:38: > OSGi is making use of annotations in several places to make development > easier. DS annotations are a good example. > > With R7 the bundle annotations were added > > > https://blog.osgi.org/2018/07/osgi-r7-highlights-bundle-annotations.html?m=1 > > And there are also component property type annotations that translate to > service properties for example. And it is a good practice to even define > such annotations. Unfortunately PDE does not support DS 1.4. > > In my recent blog post about jax-rs whiteboard I show two use cases for > bundle annotations. The package export definition and the requirement of > the Configurator. If that is of any help to get an understanding. > > Mickael Istria <mist...@redhat.com> schrieb am Fr., 22. Jan. 2021, 16:23: > >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:05 PM Christoph Läubrich <lae...@laeubi-soft.de> >> wrote: >> >>> OSGi already defines some annotations for the package level see , OSGi >>> DS makes heavy use with great success of annotations. >>> >> >> OK, can you please share a link to such example of package-info that's >> the good OSGi way. Maybe we can just mimic that and be done with it. >> >> The problem is more that the Eclipse way of thinking is sometimes >>> incompatible with standard OSGi ;-) >>> >> >> I think it's more that Eclipse Platform developers are not really top >> OSGi experts. They're using OSGi here and there as it fits, but Eclipse >> still has an extension registry and many other things that -despite some >> technical limitations- do work very well in most cases and that make people >> still rely on them without having to leverage OSGi much. >> And this Whiteboard annotation isn't standard OSGi (yet?) >> >> But I think if a draft for a @Whiteboard annotation could be provided in >>> Eclipse it might become the reference-implementation of an official >>> Eclipse specification later on :-) >>> [1] >>> https://blog.osgi.org/2018/07/osgi-r7-highlights-bundle-annotations.html >> >> >> To be clear, Eclipse Platform is not an incubator of OSGi, it's placed >> downstream of OSGi and leverages what is released. >> So while Eclipse Platform code can be used as example (in some WIP/Drafts >> Gerrit patch) to help with design of such annotation for OSGi, the project >> doesn't aim at being a reference implementation to host such >> experimentation and won't merge experimental code. >> That said, Equinox may be interesting in hosting such development. It's >> more a topic to bring on the equinox-...@eclipse.org mailing-list; which >> I believe has more interaction with the OSGi Working Group so such >> development likely to be more successful there. >> _______________________________________________ >> platform-dev mailing list >> platform-dev@eclipse.org >> To unsubscribe from this list, visit >> https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev >> >
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