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Equinox/Luna Framework
Overview
The Equinox Framework for the Luna release (Equinox 4.4 release) is an implementation of the OSGi R6 Framework specification. The OSGi R6 Core framework specification (finalized in March 2014) will contain enhancements in the following areas:
- Introduction of Service Scopes to the OSGi Service Registry (RFC 195)
- Improvements of Weaving Hooks (RFC 191)
- Clarification of hooks on the system bundle (RFC 198)
- Native environment namespace (RFC 188)
- Data Transfer Objects (RFC 185)
- Addition of FrameworkWiring.findProviders
These are considered incremental enhancements and from the Equinox perspective. Most, if not all, of these enhancements are in place for the Luna M1 build. A majority of the development effort during the Luna release is focused on refactoring and in many cases rewriting the core Equinox Framework implementation to be based on the OSGi generic dependency model. There are a number of reasons to do this. Please see the Equinox presentation given by Tom Watson at EclipseCon US 2013 for some background.
Replacing the Equinox Resolver
The package org.eclipse.osgi.service.resolver contains the Equinox resolver API. This API and the implementation of that API has been used by the Equinox framework ever since the Eclipse 3.0 release. Over that time many things have changed and many things have been learned.