[jboss-as7-dev] [OSGi WAB support] webbundle: URL handler

Hi all, As part of making the JBoss OSGi Web Application Support compliant with the spec I have started running it through the OSGi TCK. I noticed that the TCK depends heavily on the webbundle: URL protocol which is specified in section 128.4 of the specification - it is not an optional piece. So in order to support this we need to provide such a URL handler. As the webbundle: handler is never part of runtime operation (it only converts a WAR file into a WAB file on the fly) I was looking into possibly using existing implementations of the URL handler instead. However the ones that I found are quite heavy on the dependencies. The implementation in Aries depends on Blueprint being present and the one in Pax has about 10 other dependencies (including junit) - they drag in too much baggage IMHO. So I'm starting to come to the conclusion that we need to provide such an implementation as part of the OSGi webbundle support in AS7. The JIRA is https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-6006 Any other ideas? Cheers, David