[equinox-dev] Difference in system.packages.extra behaviour between 3.6.

[Ben Cox <benjamin.cox@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

We're being affected by a difference
between Equinox 3.6.2 and 3.7, and can't quite work out whether it's caused
by a bug fix, a bug being introduced, or a change in the OSGi spec from
4.2 to 4.3.

Our code has been converted to use OSGi
and runs purely on IBM JVMs, and as such has dependencies on several IBM-specific
packages of the JRE - for example, com.ibm.CORBA.iiop.
To ensure these are exported from the JRE by the system bundle, we have
added them to the org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra
property.

We have set osgi.java.profile.bootdelegation=override
and org.osgi.framework.bundle.parent=app.

The problem is that at Equinox 3.6.2,
our bundle is able to load a class from com.ibm.CORBA.iiop
without adding it to the Import-Package
statement. However, at 3.7, this is not possible. Instead, an Import-Package
statement is required (which makes it tricky to compile in PDE...)

Many thanks for your help,
Ben

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