Re: [equinox-dev] Changes to the equinox.supplement bundle

[Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are playing some tricks here to fit
into the build structure of Eclipse.  First of all, we sould state
the goal ...

We have a bunch of code in the org.eclipse.osgi
project that comprises the complete Equinox OSGi Framework as it is today.
 This includes the following things:

Core - The Core Framework
Base Adaptor - The Base Framework Adaptor
and Base Hook Implementations
Eclipse Hooks - The Eclipse Adaptor
Hook implementations
Supplement - Supplemental service interfaces/utilities
and implementations
Resolver - The package resolver.

We would like to have the ability to
build these components together into one jar like it is today in org.eclipse.osgi_3.2.0.jar.
 In addition we would like to build the following parts.

- a jar that just includes the minimal
set of classes to provide a basic OSGi R4 Framework (org.eclipse.osgi.core).
- a supplemental bundle that can be
used on non-equinox frameworks (org.eclipse.equinox.supplement)
- a resolver jar which can be used outside
of an OSGi context. (org.eclipse.equinox.resolver)
- a framework fragment that includes
the Eclipse Adaptor Hook that can be added to the minimal framework jar
to make it equivelant to the all inclusive org.eclipse.osgi jar we have
today. (org.eclipse.equinox.eclipsehooks ??)
- a console bundle that can be installed
on the core framework to add console support. (org.eclipse.equinox.console)

This thread is suggesting this could
be done by keeping the code for the all inclusive framework in the org.eclipse.osgi
project, as it is today.  What would change is that we would define
some "inner" projects in the org.eclipse.osgi project. The new
"inner" projects can be checked out independently and build separately
to build the different sub-components that we defined.

I opened bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=148121
to track this.

Tom

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I am little confused. If osgi.core does not need osgi,
then why not make 
it a seperate project? Then osgi can depend upon osgi.core. Same for 
supplement.

What is so special about osgi.core the is must be a sub folder of osgi?

BJ Hargrave
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I'm not sure on the directory naming yet.  At first I wanted to make
the 
folder names the same as the symbolic name of the split up bundles.  But
this could lead to some really long paths in our project when partitioning
the code to build a "core" framework.  By core I mean a
framework that 
only has the essentials to be considered an OSGi R4 framework.  For
example, if we created a project (org.eclipse.osgi.core) that contained
just the core framework and the minimal bits it needed to run.  This
would 
include some of the classes from supplement, but not all.  This could
lead 
to a structure that looked like this ... 

org.eclipse.osgi/ 
        .project 
        .classpath 
        /META-INF/MANIFEST.MF 
        org.eclipse.osgi.core/ 
                .project 
                .classpath 
                /META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
                src/ 
                org.eclipse.equinox.suppliment/
                    
   .project 
                    
   .classpath 
                    
   META-INF/MANIFEST.MF 
                    
   src-core/ 
                    
   src-extra/ 

The top root "org.eclipse.osgi" project would contain the following
sub-directories on the classpath: 

org.eclipse.osgi.core/src/ 
org.eclipse.osgi.core/org.eclipse.eqiunox.suppliment/src-core/ 
org.eclipse.osgi.core/org.eclipse.eqiunox.suppliment/src-extra/ 

The "org.eclipse.osgi.core" project would contain the following
sub-directories on the classpath: 

src/ 
org.eclipse.eqiunox.suppliment/src-core/ 

The "org.eclipse.equinox.suppliment" project would contain the
following 
sub-directories on the classpath: 

src-core/ 
src-extra/ 

In the end the source folder names can be long and may give a better 
indication of what they container, but it will look ugly in the package
explorer view of the top-level org.eclipse.osgi project.  Thought?

Tom



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Yes, this would be a very interesting route to explore.  It may actually
prove to be a clearer partitioning of the source.  Currently I have
to 
admit that I can never determine which source folder something should be
in.  Note that under this model we might also reconsider the naming
of 
"supplement". No bright ideas are springing to mind but something
that 
indicates that "these are the extra bits particular to Equinox"
seems on 
track. 

Just to clarify, are you suggesting that the name of the folder be 
"supplement" or "org.eclipse.equinox.supplement"?  If
the latter, should 
we be renaming the other folders that we setup this way (e.g., 
org.eclipse.equinox.console, ...)? 

Jeff 


Thomas Watson/Austin/IBM@IBMUS 
06/20/2006 11:09 PM 

















We need a way to share the code that is in the org.eclipse.osgi bundle
with the code used to build the supplement bundle. 

One way we can do this is to move the org.eclipse.equinox.registry project
in CVS to the org.eclipse.osgi project.  This could look something
like 
this 

org.eclipse.osgi/ 
       .project 
       .classpath 
       console/src 
       osgi/src 
       supplement 
               /src 
               .project 
               .classpath 

In the org.eclipse.osgi project we would treat the 
org.eclipse.equinox.supplement/src directory as classpath entry just like
the other source folders (e.g. console/src, osgi/src etc).  But the
org.eclipse.osgi/org.eclipse.equinox.supplement/ directory itself could
also be checked out individually as a bundle project to get just the 
supplemental classes for building the standalone 
org.eclipse.equinox.supplemental bundle. 

We may be able to use this approach to build the different parts of the
framework separately incases where someone wants the Equinox Framework
but 
not the rest of the bits (console, supplemental classes, eclipse adaptor
etc.).  But we still have the flexiblity to build all of the code
together 
from the top-level org.eclipse.osgi project. 

This way we do not have to duplicate the code in two different directories
in CVS and keep them in sync. 

Tom


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I have just released changes to the org.eclipse.equinox.supplement bundle
to HEAD. The added classes are required as part of the investigation into
getting the Equinox registry to run on another framework.

I have also updated all of the class comments so it says which revision
it
is based on. Hopefully this will help us keep sync'd up with the code that
is in the org.eclipse.osgi bundle.

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