Re: batik osgi bundles

Hey Helder,

Thanks for your reply. I will not have the time to play with that in the
next week, but I will follow up with you!
It's correct, that you only need the metadata, but we still need to make
sure that all the dependencies are set correctly.
I will have a look at the dependencies graph as soon as possible.

Thanks for your help!

Martina


2011/6/6 Helder Magalhães <[email protected]>

> > Dear Helder,
>
> Hi Martina,
>
>
> > Thanks for your reply.
> > We are using the batik library which is downloadable form the download
> page.
> > So I downloaded the binary distribution for JRE 1.4+ and there we are
> using
> > all the jar files in the lib folder (batik-anim.jar,
> > batik-awt-util.jar,...).
> > I want to use these as OSGi bundles in my application.
>
> OK, I took a quick look at what's involved and it seems all that it's
> necessary is appending metadata to the manifest [1].
>
>
> > I could easily make them into bundles myself, [...]
>
> Great, that means you already have the knowledge. Could you please
> file a bug [2] so that we can try to address this in the shipped jars
> for the next release? If possible attaching a patch and/or which
> proposed metadata you had in mind. Thanks.
>
>
> > but I am not completely sure
> > about the dependencies between the separate jar files. So I was wondering
> if
> > you 1) have already a OSGi bundle version of these libraries? or (2) can
> > help me with figuring out the dependencies between them.
>
> 1) No. Recently, bmargulies has helped adding Batik to maven, but
> apparently it was compiled with JDK 1.6 [3].
> 2) Maybe. Batik provides a dependency graph [4], although it's a bit
> outdated.
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Martina
>
>  Hope this helps,
>  Helder
>
>
> [1] http://blog.springsource.com/2008/02/18/creating-osgi-bundles/
> [2]
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&bug_status=__open__&product=Batik
> [3] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51263
> [4] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/install.html#dependencyGraph
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