Relationship to JSR 291 [was: Re: Bryan's comments]

[Stanley M. Ho]

Hi Richard,

Richard S.Hall wrote:
> ...
> Perhaps so.
>
> I am operating off my [possibly dated] recollection that 277 modules
> explicitly list the classes that they export, which meant that they may
> expose arbitrary public classes from a package. If this is no longer
> the case, then this is fine.
>
> The point remains, all legacy OSGi dependencies on a package assume
> that all public classes are exported from that package. An OSGi
> dependency on a given package cannot be resolved to a 277 module whose
> "exported public" classes are not the same as all "public" classes in
> the specific package.

I was under the impression that the class filtering is also in effect to
determine which public classes are exported from that package in OSGi
and that the OSGi dependency on a package already has a similar
"exported public" concept.

Anyway, these are all related to how the OSGi framework might import 277
modules by package name. I think it would be good to know if this is
actually a sensible thing that the OSGi framework wants to support
before we dive too deep on this. Glyn/Richard, is this something that
you foresee the OSGi framework will support?

- Stanley