[eclipse-dev] Equinox and Platform bundles moving to Foundation 1.1

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In the Ganymede release, many Equinox
and Platform bundles targeted the J2ME Foundation 1.0 class library profile.
For the next release, several bundles are considering moving up to the
Foundation 1.1 profile. This is under consideration for a number of reasons:

 - The Foundation 1.0 profile is
very old - proposed in 1999, initially released in 2001 and reached end
of life in 2006. It is no longer maintained, and we believe most J2ME users
have moved up to at least Foundation profile 1.1 to take advantage of bug
fixes and new capabilities
 - The OSGi R4.2 specification
is releasing a new OSGi Minimum Execution Environment 1.2 which is a subset
of J2SE 1.4 and Foundation 1.1. The OSGi R4.2 APIs (e.g org.osgi.* packages)
will require the OSGi Minimum Execution Environment 1.2 or higher. This
will prevent running on a pure Foundation 1.0 profile class library. Equinox
is planning to adopt the R4.2 APIs in the Galileo release.
 - We have a real need for some
of the APIs in Foundation 1.1, particularly java.net.URI, and the ability
to chain exceptions
 - There are no freely available
Foundation 1.0 class libraries that we know of, which makes it difficult
for our committers to validate that we can in fact run in this environment

We would like to know if anyone still
has a need for running on Foundation 1.0, and whether there is any concern
about moving some Equinox and Platform bundles up to Foundation profile
1.1. Note that this does not imply a wholesale move of all bundles to Foundation
1.1. We only intend to move up bundles as the need arises.  However,
because bundles such as org.eclipse.equinox.common are looking to move,
it will effectively end the ability to run non-trivial Equinox/OSGi-based
applications in a Foundation 1.0 environment in the Galileo release. Please
provide feedback on this proposed move in the following bug:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=257109

Thanks,
The Equinox Team