Re: [equinox-dev] [error] encoded string too long

[Raymond Auge <raymond.auge@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Thomas Watson <tjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Please open a bug as Pascal suggests.  What configuration property are you
using to configure in the system packages?  There are two available:

I understand. Will do!

 

org.osgi.framework.system.packages - This is intended to be filled in
automatically by the framework according the the VM class library the
framework is running on (e.g JavaSE 5 vs JavaSE 6).  I would not touch this
configuration property and just let the framework calculate it.

org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra - This is intended to append
additional packages which your embedded environment may be providing to the
framework.  This is where I would recommend you place your extra packages.

Correct, and I'm using Constants.FRAMEWORK_SYSTEMPACKAGES_EXTRA as suggested by the OSGi documentation.

 

 Another option is to install a system bundle fragment which
is just an empty fragment to the system.bundle, all it contains is a bundle
manifest that declares the extra packages the system bundle should export
in your embedded environment.

This seems like a potentially sensible approach but turns a configurable situation into a hard coded one. The intention of the system "property" is that it can be changed according to needs without having to recompile, while a fragment bundle would have to hard code the list unless the fragment itself is created dynamically which would just seem like a hack.

 

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Raymond Augé  | 

Senior Software Architect | Liferay, Inc.

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