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Equinox/p2/Helios Migration Guide
In the Helios release p2 graduated much of its provisional API into stable, real API. This page provides some guidance to users of the old provisional p2 API on how to migrate to the mature API in the Helios release.
Contents
Pervasive changes
Switch from global OSGi services to agent-specific services
Metadata changes
IRequiredCapability
IRequiredCapability was limiting in what it could express. For example it could not express negation and or'ing, and it could only described dependencies on something that had a namespace, a name and a version and we are striving to express requirements and capabilities on other things (for example BundleExecutionEnvironment). As such, to ensure for API evolution we have turned the too specific IRequiredCapability into an IRequirement.
Query changes
CapabilityQuery
CapabilityQuery from the provisional API has been deleted in favor of expressions. Thus the former:
IRequiredCapability cap = ...; new CapabilityQuery(cap);
Can be written as:
IRequirement cap = ...; new ExpressionQuery(IInstallableUnit.class, cap.getMatches());
Or, using Java 5 generics:
IRequirement cap = ...; new ExpressionQuery<IInstallableUnit>(IInstallableUnit.class,
cap.getMatches());