[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: JDT Core bundle

[Jacek Pospychala <jacek.pospychala@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig,
I wonder what exactly do you need of JDT Core. If only compiler, like 
for JSP support, then
there is already a slim Eclipse java compiler - distributed as ecj.jar, 
which is OSGI bundle and doesn't have any requirements.
You can get it from here:
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.3-200706251500/index.php

Craig L. Ching wrote:
> Is there a more appropriate place to ask this question?
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
> Craig L. Ching wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Jetty 6.1.5 ships the JDT Core bundle in its distribution for JSP 
> > support which is all great and fine :-D  There is a problem, though.  
> > If you want to use jetty in another OSGi framework implementation, 
> > because of the Bundle-Requirement in the bundle's manifest, you end 
> > up needing to pull in a lot of equinox into the other framework 
> > implementation.
> >
> > The claim from the jetty folks is that they don't have these 
> > dependencies at runtime outside of OSGi, which makes sense, they 
> > apparently don't use any classes that have real OSGi or other eclipse 
> > dependencies.
> >
> > So I was wondering if JDT has ever considered the possibility that 
> > their bundle could be used in other OSGi frameworks?  For instance, 
> > this is just a suggestion without understanding any JDT details, 
> > would it be possible to bundle a different, slimmer (as few eclipse 
> > depdencies as possible) bundle that could be used by jetty's JSP 
> > implementation in other framework implementations?
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Craig