Re: [ebr-dev] Bundle Naming

[Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, makes sense.

So for the naming pattern … do we want to go with: <PREFIX><original-group-id>.<original-artifact-id>? That would also become the bundle symbolic name.

Now what should we use a prefix? I’d suggest to not use "org.eclipse.ebr."  but its shorter form "ebr_" (also note the underscore as separator) because I like the shorter version more. But that’s just a preference. It would be replaceable in a custom build anyway.

-Gunnar

Am 17.07.2014 um 23:27 schrieb Brian de Alwis <briandealwis@xxxxxxxxx>:

> With a couple of months of use of EBR, I have 2¢ to add to this discussion.  I really think an EBR-specific prefix is a good thing. A number of jars on Maven Central now have OSGi metadata, but some of it is very wrong.  XStream (com.thoughtworks.xstream 1.4.7), for example, imports a number of packages that should be marked as optional, such as sun.misc.  Freemarker has similar problems.
> 
> The problem is that if we don’t mark our bundles differently then it becomes confusing to differentiate between the original bundle and our updated bundle.
> 
> Brian.
> 
> 
> On 8-Apr-2014, at 3:13 AM, David Bosschaert <david.bosschaert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I don't really see a big issue with adding org.eclipse.ebr in front of
>> the name. As you say the SpringSource EBR also have this. I think that
>> in some ways it could even be a benefit, as people would recognise it
>> as a 'trusted' provider of bundles for these jars :)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> On 8 April 2014 06:02, Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Brian raised a good point recently in a different chat. I'd like to bring it up here.
>>> 
>>> Currently - with the recipes - I'm following the Orbit naming conventions, i.e. producing bundle jar names from fully qualified package names. When I ran into issues where the full qualified package name does not match the Maven group/artifact id at all I went with the option properly representing the project the best. Most of the time it was the Maven group id + artifact id.
>>> 
>>> What do you think, should we introduce a common prefix for bundle names? For example, the bundles produced by Springsource all started with com.springsource. I hesitate to add "org.eclipse.ebr" in front of all bundle. But I have to admit that it's mostly for esthetic reasons.
>>> 
>>> -Gunnar
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