Hi Rajini, This may be clear to many, but I am trying to catch up and understand what we are doing in this space. Can you please explain which scenarios are working and what is not working and how your suggestion relates to those scenarios.
Thanks Haleh On 8/29/07, Rajini Sivaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > We would like to start supporting SCA annotations in implementation > classes > used inside OSGi bundles to make implementation.osgi consistent with > implementation.java. > > In the current implementation, SCA annotations are only supported for > annotations used in interfaces, since we were keen on supporting existing > OSGi bundles without any change. This meant that additional SCA properties > like @AllowsPassByReference had to be supported through additional > attributes on the <implementation.osgi/> element. But since these > properties > do not have an OSGi equivalent, they cannot be used with existing OSGi > bundles, and for new implementations which support these properties, we > would like to support SCA annotations to make the OSGi implementation > consistent with the Java implementation. > > This is a fairly big change in implementation.osgi, and I would like your > views on whether this is a good time to make the change, so that > the implementation will reflect the long-term strategy in the next > release. > I can submit a patch early next week if it can be integrated before the > release. > > > Thank you... > > Regards, > > Rajini >
