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Re: OSGi confusion...

From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon_at_sun.com>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:35:14 -0700

Richard S. Hall wrote:
> On 5/20/09 10:34 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:
>> Richard S. Hall wrote:
>>> Yes, the main approach for solving such situations is to use probing
>>> (i.e, the extender model) as opposed to asking the context class loader.
>>
>> That's not acceptable. We need a way to make this work. We can't
>> change the code in the JDK (e.g., JAF) to depend on some OSGi-specific
>> workaround. Even if this means adding a non-standard feature to the
>> OSGi class loaders, we need to fix this.
>
> Sahoo didn't rewrite the JDK to get META-INF/services working and I
> don't think anyone proposed modifying the JDK to get this working either.

Ok, I must be missing something. How do we make this work?