[cross-project-issues-dev] Warning for javax.inject users

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everyone,

If you make use of javax.inject in your plugin and relied on org.eclipse.core.runtime reexporting it now you'll have to add import package for it explicitly. [1]

Bundle javax.inject was always optional import in org.eclipse.core.runtime thus it was never really promised to be there for clients. Combined with the fact that API can change underneath us [2] it made no sense to continue relying on this uncertain and even questionable structure "reexport optional dependency".

All clients affected from this have to explicitly Import-Package: javax.inject and thus ensure that it's properly resolved fot them.

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.13/platform_isv.php#javax-injext

[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=547877

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Alexander Kurtakov

Red Hat Eclipse Team