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

[Stanley M. Ho]

Hi Richard,

Richard S.Hall wrote:
>> I don't think I fully understand your concerns around exporting an
>> entire package. As you mentioned, what's get exported in 277 module is
>> in terms of classes and the information is in the module metadata, and
>> I
>> think we can probably determine the packages associated with these
>> exported classes and treat these packages as "exported packages" from
>> the OSGi perspective. There is no split package allowed in 277 module,
>> so I think each of these exported packages would be an entire package.
>
> The point is that an OSGi exported package FOO specifically means that
> all public classes in the FOO package are accessible to importers. Such
> an export is not the same as a 277 module that just happens to export a
> class in its export signature from the FOO package. Without cracking
> open the module, there is no way to tell if its export signature
> contains all public classes from the FOO package (i.e., the entire
> package).
>
> -> richard

I think there is a misunderstanding here. Both JSR 277 and OSGi export
all "accessible" classes in a package. JSR 294 changes what accessible
means from "public" to "exported public", and this affects 277 and OSGi
in the same way. I don't think there is a conflict here.

- Stanley