Exported Classes and OSGi Re: Supporting OSGi Bundles in the Java Module System

[Adrian Brock]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 20:16 -0700, Stanley M. Ho wrote:
> 3.2 ModuleDefinition class
> Two new methods are added in the ModuleDefinition class to return the
> exported packages and member packages respectively. The export and
> member definitions contained in the OSGi metadata are in package
> granularity. In addition, a new PackageDefinition class is added to
> allow an OSGi bundle to expose the metadata for an exported package.
> This is required to meet the requirements (1) and (2). 
>   ModuleDefinition class:
>       public abstract Set<PackageDefinition> getExportedPackageDefinitions();
>       public abstract Set<PackageDefinition> getMemberPackageDefinitions();
>       
>   PackageDefinition class:
>       public abstract class PackageDefinition {
>           public String getName();
>           public Version getVersion();
>           public Set<String> getAttributeNames();
>           public String getAttribute(String name); 
>       }

ModuleDefinition still refers to exported and member classes.
Although this is probably more of an issue for 294/291 interoperation,
I don't think 291 has such notions?
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Adrian Brock
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JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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