Re: Importing own exported modules, was Re: svn commit: r721429 - /tuscany/java/sca/modules/extensibility/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

[Simon Laws <si...@googlemail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:37 AM, Luciano Resende <lu...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Some info about importing own exported modules.
>
> [1]
> http://www.osgi.org/blog/2007/04/importance-of-exporting-nd-importing.html
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:07 AM,  <sl...@apache.org> wrote:
> > Author: slaws
> > Date: Fri Nov 28 03:07:11 2008
> > New Revision: 721429
> >
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=721429&view=rev
> > Log:
> > Remove the self import as it messes up my eclipse PDE dependency graph.
> There may be a specific reason for his import as many modules import
> packages that they themselves contain so I'll see if anyone can shed light
> on this and if not carry on removing them
> >
> > Modified:
> >    tuscany/java/sca/modules/extensibility/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
> >
> > Modified: tuscany/java/sca/modules/extensibility/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
> > URL:
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tuscany/java/sca/modules/extensibility/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF?rev=721429&r1=721428&r2=721429&view=diff
> >
> ==============================================================================
> > --- tuscany/java/sca/modules/extensibility/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
> (original)
> > +++ tuscany/java/sca/modules/extensibility/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF Fri Nov
> 28 03:07:11 2008
> > @@ -12,8 +12,6 @@
> >  Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
> >  Bundle-License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt
> >  Bundle-Description: Apache Tuscany SCA Extensibility
> > -Import-Package: org.apache.tuscany.sca.core;version="1.4",
> > - org.apache.tuscany.sca.extensibility;version="1.4"
> > +Import-Package: org.apache.tuscany.sca.core;version="1.4"
> >  Bundle-SymbolicName: org.apache.tuscany.sca.extensibility
> >  Bundle-DocURL: http://www.apache.org/
> > -
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Luciano Resende
> Apache Tuscany, Apache PhotArk
> http://people.apache.org/~lresende <http://people.apache.org/%7Elresende>
> http://lresende.blogspot.com/
>

So it would seem that, for substitutability, this is OSGi best practice so
I'll put it back in. I'm not sure I like it though (substitutability seems
kind of dangerous to me) so I guess that means my brain is not fully
OSGIified yet.

Simon