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

[David Bosschaert]

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