If you're referring to the fact that using spring custom namespaces in osgi forces you to actually import a lot of packages, this is indeed a problem specific to the way Spring-DM handles custom namespaces. Do you have use cases for that other than when using SPring-DM ? If so, can you explicit the real use cases where offline inspection would not be sufficient ?
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 17:28, John Platts <john_pla...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I actually want to address issues with Felix and the OSGi specification that > are not specific to the Spring Framework, Spring DM, or Eclipse Gemini. > > One of the real issues that I want to address is to be able to import bundles > containing certain packages without having to list all of the packages > exported by that bundle and without having to know the symbolic name of the > bundle. This feature is useful because: > - It eliminates the need to do a dynamic import of the needed packages > - It allows entire bundles to be imported without having to know the symbolic > names of the bundles > - It does not require the user to know all of the packages exported by a > bundle > > ---------------------------------------- >> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:02:06 +0100 >> Subject: Re: Issues that need to be addressed in Apache Felix and the OSGi >> specification >> From: gno...@gmail.com >> To: users@felix.apache.org >> >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 16:51, John Platts wrote: >> > >> > I have been running into several problems when developing web application >> > bundles that utilize the Spring Framework. The problems that I have been >> > running into are: >> > - The Spring Framework needs to access META-INF/spring.handlers and >> > META-INF/spring.schemas files in JARs that have these files >> > - The Spring Framework needs access to packages that are not in the >> > Import-Package header of web application bundles that utilize the Spring >> > Framework >> > >> >> I agree those are real issues with Spring-DM. But that's not really >> the place for such discussions. >> FWIW, you should give Aries Blueprint a try, as all those problems >> have been solved in it. >> >> > The issues that really need to be addressed in both Apache Felix and the >> > OSGi specification are: >> > - The ability to require bundles by specifying packages that they export >> > instead of by specifying the symbolic names of the bundles. >> > - The ability to make META-INF and its subdirectories visible to class >> > loaders of bundles that meet at least one of the following criteria: >> > - Requires a bundle >> > - Imports all of the packages exported by the bundle (by requiring >> > bundle(s), importing package(s), and/or dynamically importing package(s)) >> > plus has a DynamicImport-Package header that includes META-INF and its >> > subdirectories >> > >> > Addressing the issues above will make it easier to use OSGi bundles from >> > Web Application Bundles without having to rely on workarounds. >> >> What are you underlying problem ? Maybe they already have some >> solutions. For the first one, this is an OSGi good practice and is >> done widely, so not sure what your issue is. The second one might be >> related to various issues which i'm quite sure have been fixed in >> various ways (having solved some myself). >> >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Guillaume Nodet >> ------------------------ >> Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ >> ------------------------ >> Open Source SOA >> http://fusesource.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org > > -- Cheers, Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org
