Manifest Change spring-core 2.5.1 to 2.5.5

[delasoul]

Hello,

I am just switching from spring version 2.5.1 to 2.5.5.
In the spring core 2.5.5 Manifest file an entry for:

org.eclipse.core.runtime;resolution:=optional;common=split

was added.
I am using the Apache Felix Bundlerepository implementation to bootstrap my OSGi environment and as the

common

attribute is not in the
OSGi spec (as far as I know) I get an

org.osgi.framework.InvalidSyntaxException

Will the import stay this way (why does spring-core have an import for eclipse
runtime?) because then I have to build my custom spring-core Manifest?

I don't know if the Spring-DM team is responsible for osgifying the spring core libs - but I didn't know where to post elsewhere...

Thanx in advance for any help,

Michael

[Costin Leau]

Michael, you can check the changelog to see why the import was added - it was likely needed to deal with some resource handling on Equinox environments (such as websphere).
Exported packages can have custom/arbitrary attributes specified which become labels or tags with a user defined purposes. It seems that Felix doesn't support custom attributes for exported packages based on your exception, which are part of the OSGi spec (see section 3.5.5)

[delasoul]

Hello Costin,

thank you for your answer.
It looks like that the common=split attribute is not the problem but that
bindex (the tool to generate the repository.xml for the OBR) adds another header that
causes the exception.
I posted now on the felix user list to find out more....

Thanx again,

Michael