Implement fragment support for extending a host's bundle class path

• Key: FELIX-656
• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Richard S. Hall
• Reporter: Richard S. Hall
• Component/s: Framework, Specification compliance
• Affects Version/s: felix-1.0.4
• Fix Version/s: felix-1.2.0

Description

For the 1.2.0 release of Felix, we are going to target partial support for fragments. Specifically, we will support extending the host's bundle class path using fragments. This will include support for searching the fragment's bundle class path after the host's bundle class path as well as injecting a JAR file from a fragment into the host's bundle class path. This functionality should correctly support both host and fragment updates along with obeying refresh dependencies.

Comments

[Richard S. Hall]

Committed support to properly handle fragment dependencies, so the update/refresh cycle appears to be working properly.

[Richard S. Hall]

I just committed and deployed a new snapshot because I found a small bug that resulted in the bundle class path not being calculated correctly in all cases.

[Richard S. Hall]

I got some feedback from the GlassFish team that after I fixed the last bug it has started working for their test case, so I am resolving this for now, but there is definitely more work to be done in this area.