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.
If you think it can be done in time then I think you should go for it, i'd commit any patches for you. The next release is 1.0 with the branch for that being taken around the 14th of September. If you can get patches submitted by at least a few days before then and the testcases and samples are working after the changes then I can't see any problem with going ahead now. Just to confirm one thing, are the changes going to be backward compatible, i.e. would SCDL that works today keep on working after the changes are done? ...ant
