[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of OSGi Integration] - Re: Current roadmap

"david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : | Manifests (even OSGi Manifests) are dead simple to parse - you could just do it with plain regular expressions even - and the metadata model can't be all that complex. I don't see anything in the OSGi spec to make be believe otherwise, in any case. | If it's that simple I would be more than happy if you could do it. ;-) I don't doubt it's not doable via regexp (I did part of my BSc thesis on them ;-), but I very much doubt it's gonna be nice at the end. Hence javacc or possibly antlr usage -- keeping the parsing in rule files. The stuff that get's ugly is imports/exports. With its attributes, =, :=, :, [, ", ... details. I never know which goes where. :-) The metadata should be simple, it just takes some effort to go from feature to feature and create proper parsing --> osgi md --> jboss cl md tests. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4203332#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...