packaging log4j and uimaj-ep-runtime

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

uimaj-ep-runtime includes uimaj-core.  This project includes the 
Log4jLogger_impl class, which imports "org.apache.log4j. ... " package. 

I updated the uimaj-ep-runtime plugin so that it "imports" this 
package.  However, that didn't quite work - Eclipse said it could not 
find any bundle that exported that package.

I fixed that (workaround) by going to 
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/S20080209163815/ 
and dlownloading org.apache.log4j_1.2.8.  That allows now, the 
uimaj-ep-runtime to compile.

I would prefer some mechanism for log4j support which didn't require it 
to be present. 

Maybe there is a way to specify this in the OSGi manifest....

-Marshall

Re: packaging log4j and uimaj-ep-runtime

[Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com>]

Tong Fin suggested marking the import as "optional".  I tried that, and 
it seems to work.

So users won't need to get log4j as a bundle :-)

-Marshall

Marshall Schor wrote:
> uimaj-ep-runtime includes uimaj-core.  This project includes the 
> Log4jLogger_impl class, which imports "org.apache.log4j. ... " package.
> I updated the uimaj-ep-runtime plugin so that it "imports" this 
> package.  However, that didn't quite work - Eclipse said it could not 
> find any bundle that exported that package.
>
> I fixed that (workaround) by going to 
> http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/S20080209163815/ 
> and dlownloading org.apache.log4j_1.2.8.  That allows now, the 
> uimaj-ep-runtime to compile.
>
> I would prefer some mechanism for log4j support which didn't require 
> it to be present.
> Maybe there is a way to specify this in the OSGi manifest....
>
> -Marshall
>
>