RE: [equinox-dev] OSGI Bundles: alternate manifest.mf location

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The OSGI spec is a little over-zealous
in specing that all bundles are JARs.  I don't dispute what it says
(though I don't recall it being that strong) but in practice several open
source implementations that I know support installation of directory based
bundles.  This gives you a clue as to why PDE is keen on the file
being where it is and called what it is.  this approach allows you
to turn around and simply run the project as a bundle without doing any
whacky copy transformations or passing extra manifest location information
into the runtime.

Jeff

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Ravi:
Note that a jarred bundle could not be a standard Jar anymore if the
META-INF was anywhere else.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/jar/jar.html

And an OSGi jarred bundle is always a valid Jar file.
>From the OSGi R4 spec:
"2.3.2 Java JAR File Restrictions
OSGi bundles are always valid JAR files."
"3.2.1 Bundle Manifest Headers
A bundle can carry descriptive information about itself in the manifest
file
that is contained in its JAR file under the name of
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF. "

So putting the manifest anywhere would break OSGi compatibility afaict.

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Yes, PDE requires the manifest file to be located in the META-INF/
folder at the root of the project. 

PaScaL 



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PDE Plugin project requires a valid Manifest to be present under
/meta-inf of the current OSGi bundle project in the workspace, and the
PDE dependencies virtual classpath variable mounts the deps mentioned in
the Manifest. Is there a way to use alternate location for OSGI
MANIFEST.MF file (e.g: resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF)? 

I created a sample OSGI project and moved to the file to
resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF from META-INF/MANIFEST.MF. Updated
"build.properties" to reflect this new location. The PDE generated
errors and was unable to mount the plugin deps mentioned in manifest.mf.


Is META-INf location is hard-coded somehow? 

Any help is appreciated, thanks
-Ravi R_______________________________________________
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