Closed Capstan closed 4 years ago
Knowing little about OSGi, and seeing little configuration for it in the Gradle files, I'd like someone else to take a look at this before merging.
Do we know if we even need the osgi plugin anymore? What fails if we remove it?
I scanned the build.gradle it doesn't look like we use the osgiManifest function introduced by that plugin, so I'd say we just remove it.
I know so little about OSGi. This was somewhat spurred by requests to remove Guava due in issue #3 because it drastically increases the size of their JAX-RS web app, and java-json-tools/json-schema-core/pull/40 where they were having issues in the OSGi environment due to segregated classloaders. I presume people are using it this way, but we don't currently have any e2e testing for it.
/cc @soberich @borcsokj in case they have feedback on what / how it's used in OSGi.
Also, according to https://docs.gradle.org/5.6.3/userguide/osgi_plugin.html, the OSGi plugin does affect the build without being otherwise referenced, by changing the manifest object, and adding a osgiClasses task.
https://github.com/bndtools/bnd/blob/4.2.0.REL/biz.aQute.bnd.gradle/README.md has some more details about how that plugin differs, but it looks like it similarly instruments the builds.
This isn't currently a priority for me to develop expertise in to make tests for, so I am relying on user feedback or contributions.
Thanks for the research. Sounds good to me.
Fixes #13.