[infinispan-dev] API, Commons, Core, OSGi, split packages, signed packages, etc

[Manik Surtani]

How disruptive?  I.e., in terms of backward-compatibility?  Can we get away with leaving the API bits in the root package and only moving the stuff that we use internally?

On 23 Nov 2011, at 10:44, Pete Muir wrote:

> I would prefer 2, but understand it may be too disruptive. It will provide a good foundation though.
> 
> On 23 Nov 2011, at 10:40, Tristan Tarrant wrote:
> 
>> Well, it seems like the creation of the -api and -commons artifacts is 
>> causing a few problems (we knew about them, but we can no longer ignore 
>> them):
>> 
>> - they have introduced split packages, i.e. classes in the same package 
>> coming from multiple jar
>> - they cause breakage in the maven-bundle-plugin, forcing us to 
>> temporarily disable OSGi bundles
>> - they cause problems with AS7's modular class loader which stops us 
>> from keeping them separate
>> - they will not be allowed in EAP as jars there will have to be signed, 
>> and currently they can't be
>> 
>> I have created an issue about this: 
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-1548
>> So we have two possible solutions:
>> 
>> - we put things back as they were, unsplitting the core artifact and 
>> removing api and commons. This has minimal impact. I already have a 
>> working pull for this: https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/667
>> - we properly refactor api and commons into their own packages. This 
>> will cause considerable churn. I have a partial pull for this which does 
>> it for -api, -commons and -core: 
>> https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/665
>> 
>> Comments please
>> 
>> Tristan
>> 
>> Note: I really wanted the refactoring pull to have id 666 since it's 
>> quite evil, but you can't have everything :)
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