[jboss-dev] Scanning jars for package capabilities

[Andrew Lee Rubinger]

These tools would need to be run upon an artifact during the project 
build/release phase, and not by the AS build.  Else we'll be altering 
the bits of released components and failing checksums, etc.

On 06/19/2009 07:10 AM, Ales Justin wrote:
>>> but i guess instead of saying "EXPORT_ALL" (which triggers the
>>> scanning of jar for packages) we could probably configure each
>>> deployer/deployment to have this file with a set of
>>> "includes"/"capabilities" and explicitly list the packages available?
>> Probably we could use some MC tool to generate this for a jar file input?
>>
>> Ales, is this something that could be considered for the MC tools
>> features that you had in mind?
>
> I don't think we should "re-invent" this.
>
> This is what OSGi based import/export tools have been doing for a long
> time now:
> * BND - http://www.aqute.biz/Code/Bnd
> * Bundlor - http://www.springsource.org/bundlor
> * PAX Construct - http://www.ops4j.org/projects/pax/construct/
>
> And I guess we could even create a proper Maven plugin to do this for us.
>
> I already asked for something like this in
> https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/TTALE-44
> but I'm more keen on extending/forking previously mentioned tools.
>
> There was also an OSGi Tools summit, but I need to check what was
> actually discussed there.
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