jstl bundle

[Rex Wang <rw...@gmail.com>]

Hi devs,

Tomcat community plans to release their taglibs implementation in next 2 or
3 weeks. I opened an issue report in their bugzilla to persuade them
bundle-ify their jars (
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50064).

>From our experience, we bundled the spec api and impl in to one bundle, so I
provided a patch for them based on this approach. However, Jeremy asked me
if we can provide the patch to bundle-ify the spec jar and impl jar
separately. I am fine with that. But before making such patch, I want to
confirm that, is there any problem to use 2 separate bundles instead of one
integrated bundle? I remember we have to make javamail as a single bundle
before..

Thoughts?

-- 
Lei Wang (Rex)
rwonly AT apache.org

Re: jstl bundle

[Jarek Gawor <jg...@gmail.com>]

Keep in mind that if we separate the spec and impl we might need to
enhance the spec jar to be osgi-aware (like we have done for other
spec jars).

Jarek

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Rex Wang <rw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> Tomcat community plans to release their taglibs implementation in next 2 or
> 3 weeks. I opened an issue report in their bugzilla to persuade them
> bundle-ify their jars
> (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50064).
>
> From our experience, we bundled the spec api and impl in to one bundle, so I
> provided a patch for them based on this approach. However, Jeremy asked me
> if we can provide the patch to bundle-ify the spec jar and impl jar
> separately. I am fine with that. But before making such patch, I want to
> confirm that, is there any problem to use 2 separate bundles instead of one
> integrated bundle? I remember we have to make javamail as a single bundle
> before..
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Lei Wang (Rex)
> rwonly AT apache.org
>

Re: jstl bundle

[David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>]

On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Rex Wang wrote:

> Hi devs,
> 
> Tomcat community plans to release their taglibs implementation in next 2 or 3 weeks. I opened an issue report in their bugzilla to persuade them bundle-ify their jars (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50064).
> 
> From our experience, we bundled the spec api and impl in to one bundle, so I provided a patch for them based on this approach. However, Jeremy asked me if we can provide the patch to bundle-ify the spec jar and impl jar separately. I am fine with that. But before making such patch, I want to confirm that, is there any problem to use 2 separate bundles instead of one integrated bundle? I remember we have to make javamail as a single bundle before..

That's because the javamail spec was written before sun figured out how to separate the spec and implementation so there's a lot of implementation in the spec classes, and sun's javamail comes as one jar.  We don't do that with any other specs or implementations.

thanks
david jencks

> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -- 
> Lei Wang (Rex)
> rwonly AT apache.org