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

[alesj]

"david.lloyd at 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.


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