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Re: [GFv3] Important change related to use of OSGi in v3

From: Jerome Dochez <Jerome.Dochez_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:49:54 -0700

On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:10 AM, Sahoo wrote:

> I have checked in [1] a lot of files a few hours back; they are
> mostly to do with pom.xml.
>
> The summary of the change is given below:
> ----------
> 1. Java EE APIs are now exporting packages with correct version.
> They are
> still built as part of javaee-api module.
>
> 2. We are now using Import-Package header to specify dependency. To
> make this
> change, we have switched to using maven-bundle-plugin for OSGi
> headers. The
> version constraints do not specify any upper bound, so this gives us
> flexibility during development. Also changed modules to use javax
> APIs from
> org.glassfish groupId, as they contain proper package version
> information in
> manifest file. Using them will ensure proper version constraint in
> Import-Package.
>
>
> 3. Changed QL to stop running HK2 mode, as we do *not* want to
> support it
> going forward. In fact, I have not even tested current set of
> changes on
> HK2 mode.
>
> 4. Updated felix/conf/config.properties to export more packages by
> system
> bundle. These are JDK internal classes used by our code.
>
> 5. Updated felix/conf/config.properties to start Felix shell by
> default.
> This is very usefuk to debug OSGi issues.
can you turn this off without having to change the properties file ?

>
>
> 6. Fixed a bug in ApplicationLifecycle.java which was (sometimes)
> causing
> JPA lazy loading QL test case to fail. The reason was that the code
> was
> using the same classloader used during deployment and loading, hence
> classfiletransformers were not being picked up.
>
> 7. Changed code to use the newly introduced LogHelper class in HK2
> as opposed to Util class, as Util is supposed to be a private class.
>
> 8. We now support vanilla OSGi bundles in modules directory.
>
> Note:
> -----
> Ran QL, some JDBC dev test and some JPA, JSP and JSF samples.
> You need updated jsp-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar file.
>
> TODO:
> -----
> 1. gf-web-connector still uses Require-Bundle, else some of the
> ResourceBundles
> are not loadable from implementation modules.
>
> 2. gf-jruby-connector is temporarily not being made part of any
> distribution,
> because I have no idea where its code lies. It needs to be rebuilt
> to use
> newer hk2.
>
> 3. ClassLoader reorganisation.
>
> 4. Stop using bootstrap.delegation="*"
>
> 5. Try to separate bnd instructions to a separate file. Currently
> this is not
> possible because of Felix issue #620.
>
> 6. Each module owner to identify the right export list for their
> module.
> Currently we export every package.
>
> 7. Stop repackaging grizzly, as newer versions of grizzly contains
> OSGi metadata
>
> 8. admingui is not yet tested.
>
> 9. mvn gf:run is most likely broken. Will be fixed soon.
>
> ----------------
> Thanks,
> Sahoo
> [1] http://fisheye4.atlassian.com/changelog/~br=trunk/glassfish-svn/
> trunk/v3?cs=21172
>
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