Re: [equinox-dev] Two bundles contributing to one package?

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a followup here.  You can
(and we do) use Require-Bundle to join splits and then export the package.
 This allows people to use Import-Package and get the union of the
different splits.  The trick there is to use mandatory attributes
to differentiate the various exports.  See
        https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=134083
for a discussion of what we are doing
with the org.eclipse.core.runtime package

Jeff

"Neil Bartlett" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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04/06/2006 08:37 AM

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> Can I have two bundles which contribute to a
single package?

Yes, but you have to use Require-Bundle, not Import-Package. See
section 3.13.1 in the OSGi R4 core spec:

"Import-Package takes priority over Require-Bundle, and packages which
are exported by a
required bundle and imported via Import-Package must NOT be treated as
split packages."

Section 3.13.2 goes on to say that split packages are a bad idea in general.

- Neil


On 4/6/06, John Wells <jwells@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can I have two bundles which contribute to a single package?
>
> In other words, can I have:
>
> 1.  A bundle A that exports package com.foo with class A
> 2.  A bundle B that exports package com.foo with class B
> 3.  Have a bundle C that imports com.foo and gets access to both
A and B
>
> ?
>
> It doesn't seem like I can do this...
>
> I've tried the following:
>
> In BundleA I had the following:
>
> Export-Package: com.foo;name=A
>
> In BundleB I had the following:
>
> Import-Package: com.foo;name=A
> Export-Package: com.foo;name=B
>
> In BundleC I have the following:
>
> Import-Package: com.foo;name=B
>
> Bundle C does not resolve!?!
>
> John Wells (Aziz)
> jwells@bea.comNOSPAM
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