[jira] Commented: (GERONIMO-4912) Should plugins be packed jar files or exploded?

["Rick McGuire (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Rick McGuire commented on GERONIMO-4912:
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There was some recent discussion within osgi of defining a standard URL handler to allow a directory of files to be loaded as a bundle.  There was a lot of discussion, but I'm not sure it really went anywhere.  I'm not aware that there's any standard ability to do this. 

> Should plugins be packed jar files or exploded?
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>
>                 Key: GERONIMO-4912
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4912
>             Project: Geronimo
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues) 
>          Components: osgi
>    Affects Versions: 3.0
>            Reporter: David Jencks
>             Fix For: 3.0
>
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> Currently the osgi framework only works with plugins packed as jar files, not exploded jar files like the regular geronimo server.  Since osgi can deal with classpaths inside a  jar file, I rather think that we should proceed with this as standard practice for the rest of the server.  However this will mean moving the archiving functionality out of the car-maven-plugin and into the deployer.
> The alternative is to make sure that unpacked plugins actually work in osgi.  I didn't experiment with this at all.

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