[jira] [Updated] (FELIX-5091) Allow to exclude system packages without redefining all exports

["Karl Pauls (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Karl Pauls updated FELIX-5091:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: framework-5.6.4)

> Allow to exclude system packages without redefining all exports
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-5091
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-5091
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Framework
>    Affects Versions: framework-5.4.0
>            Reporter: Christian Schneider
>
> There are several cases where the OSGi framework exports system packages by default but the result is not usable.
> For example javax.transaction is exported but the package is not complete. So a regular case is to exclude this package and provide it as a bundle.
> Currently this can be done by redefining org.osgi.framework.system.packages. The problem is that you then need to redefine all the system packages which is a big list and additionally differs between java versions.
> So I propose to allow to exclude single packages without having to redefine them all. 
> One simple solution would be to use org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra and allow to specify a package to exclude by prefixing it with "-".
> E.g.
> org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra=-javax.transaction,-javax.transaction.xa
> This would avoid creating another framework property.
> Alternatively we could introduce a new property like:
> org.osgi.framework.system.packages.exclude=javax.transaction,javax.transaction.xa
> This property would then only allow to exclude exports.



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