Re: [equinox-dev] Why is org.eclipse.osgi marked as Eclipse-ExtensibleAP

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Eclipse-ExtensibleAPI is only used
by PDE to indicate that fragments of the host should be placed on the classpath
of bundles that depend on the host.  It is necessary for org.eclipse.osgi
to have this header for execution environments that do not have jaxp (J2SE-1.3,
CDC-Foundation etc.) or other packages provided by larger EEs.  In
this case a system bundle fragment can be installed that exports the jaxp
packages and supplies an XML parser implementation.  If a bundle uses
a J2SE-1.3 Execution Environment and uses Import-Package: javax.xml.parsers
it can get wired to the javax.xml.parsers package which the system.bundle
exports.

The eRCP project includes system.bundle
fragments that export jaxp and provide an xml parser when running on CDC-1.1/Foundation-1.1.
 This allows them to use the PDE tooling to accurately setup the bundle
classpaths at development time.

Tom

Pascal Rapicault <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject	[equinox-dev] Why is org.eclipse.osgi marked as        Eclipse-ExtensibleAPI

Could someone remind me why the manifest of org.eclipse.osgi contains the
mark up Eclipse-ExtensibleAPI: true

Thx

PaScaL

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