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Re: [e4-dev] Re-exporting Require-Bundle


In Ben's case it is most likely he's a replacer, not the re-exporter.
IIRC RAP needs to replace a number of classes in the workbench, and it
is hard to do because of our re-exporting and our reliance on
Require-Bundle

PW


While you're right that has nothing to do with this discussion.
Reexporting bundles is not the problem for RAP but it's something I stumbled several times. Regarding the Require-Bundle vs. Import-Package - that's another point but should be discussed in another thread ;-)

One example regarding reexport: several eclipse projects have Require-Bundle on com.ibm.icu. As some of us want to use com.ibm.icu.base I talked to the teams to use Import-Package for this case. The problem was: They can't do it because they already reexported com.ibm.icu and cannot break their clients. These are the day-to-day problems I see with reexporting bundles because you have a much tighter coupling between bundles.

Just my 2 cents
 Ben


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