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[eclipse-dev] OSGi reintroduction to Orbit
  • From: Krzysztof Daniel <kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:52:04 +0200
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  • Organization: Red Hat

Hello everyone. 

I'd like to describe a problem that started becoming very visible in the
last year on the border of Eclipse Community - Orbit.

As more projects adopt OSGi, Eclipse independent projects started adding
manifests to their jars. The problem is that their bundles ids rarely
match the Eclipse Orbit one. A quite recent example:
javamail 1.5.0 has gid:aid com.sun.mail:javax.mail, which translates
into OSGi bundle id com.sun.mail.javax.mail.

The worst part is that it is done according to naming rules. It looks
like it is Orbit which is using wrong bundle ids.

This whole situation is quite new and unexpected - at a time there was
no maven/osgi naming guidelines and it was fully justified to have
Eclipse specific names. Right now they just increase the fragmentation,
are a maintenance cost and at the same time they have very limited
adoption.

Is there something we can do about this issue?

-- 
Krzysztof Daniel <kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat



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