[jboss-osgi-dev] DOSGi import issue

[Thomas Diesler]

Optional imports are supposed to work. In the context of AS7 we don't 
seem to test this however.
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-5697

cheers
--thomas

On 10/05/2012 01:04 AM, David Bosschaert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was looking again at getting CXF-DOSGi working on AS7.2 master and
> came across the following issue.
> There are a fairly large number of bundles.
> One bundle (spring-context) has an optional import on another bundle
> (optionally imports package org.springframework.aop.support). However in
> this use-case the import isn't actually optional in that the total
> system doesn't work without this optional import.
>
> Now when it goes through resolution (in AS7/OSGi) of spring-context the
> bundle exporting org.springframwork.aop.support is actually already
> installed (and started). Still when debugging through the linking
> process of spring-context, the optional import isn't provided (it's not
> in the the list of dependencies provided to Module.link()).
>
> So I'm wondering about this. On the one hand, since the import is
> optional it seems like what it does is allowable. On the other hand
> you'd expect that it attempts to at least import all optional imports
> that are available at resolution time.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
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