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Re: [equinox-dev] looking up binaries

Could capabilities be used to represent dependencies between native libraries? 

Scott

On 6/10/2012 2:23 PM, BJ Hargrave wrote:
'cause that is the way it was designed in Java? System.loadLibrary is typically called from some class' static initializer to define the native methods of the class. System.loadLibrary calls ClassLoader.findLibrary to request advice in locating the native library. For bundle class loaders, this can then provide the location of the native library mentioned in the bundle's Bundle-NativeCode manifest header.

In your example, since a class in bundle 1 has a static initializer calling System.loadLibrary("1"), then that code needs to first trigger a class loader from bundle 2 where  that class' static initializer calls System.loadLibrary("2"). This will then make sure lib2.so is loaded before lib1.so.

In general, the native code support in Java is really only useful for loading JNI native libraries. How the dependencies of the JNI native libraries are met is not addressed.

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From:        Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:        Equinox development mailing list <equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date:        2012/06/10 16:48
Subject:        [equinox-dev] looking up binaries
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Hey,

I have a situation where the binaries for my application are spread across multiple bundles and those libraries depend on each others. For example, I have bundle1 that carries lib1.so and I have bundle2 that carries lib2.so, and bundle1 depends on bundle2. When I try to load lib1.so if lib2.so has not yet been loaded, then the loading of lib1 will fail.

Is there a fundamental reason why we loading of the libraries could mimic the loading of classes?

Thx

Pascal

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