[FELIX-3394] [Framework] Refactor internal resolver APIs to better align with upcoming OSGi resolver spec

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: framework-4.0.2
• Fix Version/s: framework-4.2.0
• Component/s: Framework
• Assignee: Richard S. Hall
• Reporter: Richard S. Hall
• Created: 14/Mar/12 15:38
• Updated: 14/Mar/12 16:22
• Resolved: 14/Mar/12 16:22

Description

The upcoming OSGi R5 enterprise spec is introducing a resolver API, which was intended for OBR-like situations. However, it is largely inspired by the resolver approach of the Felix framework, since the framework adopted the original generic capability/requirement model of OBR some years ago. So, in an effort to make sure that the new resolver API is acceptable to us and to hopefully simplify the possibility of implementing the resolver API and potentially adopting it as the resolver of the framework directly, we should try to align the internal resolver API with it in advance.