Re: [equinox-dev] Replacement for PackageAdmin.getBundles

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No, package admin may not be available on all future framework implementations of R4.3.  I have no plans to remove it from equinox because I know it is used by many clients and I don't want to break them.  I would hope that most framework implementations would have the same concern and will keep an implementation of PackageAdmin around for a long time.

I'm not sure I understand the seriousness of this "breaking change" though.  There is an alternative way of doing this as BJ suggests.  Also, PackageAdmin may have been a mandatory core service in OSGi R4.2 specification, but it has not always been so.  Previous releases of the core specifications made the PackageAdmin service optional.  Although I don't think there is any reasonable core framework implementation available that does not provide PackageAdmin at the moment.

Tom

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BJ, could you confirm that the old API will still be available in all frameworks... otherwise this would be a serious breaking change for existing clients. 

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On 22 Feb 2011, at 16:09, BJ Hargrave <hargrave@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is no replacement for that method. You can just grovel over the bundles to find this information. Seems like a job for a utility class...

That method was not a good fit for packageadmin anyway since it nothing to do with the wiring state of the bundles.
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From:        Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi,

What's the recommended replacement for
org.osgi.service.packageadmin.PackageAdmin.getBundles(String, String)? I
was looking for a similar method in the new org.osgi.framework.wiring
package. But it appears that there is none. I haven't checked the
changes for M6, though.

-Gunnar



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