bndautomanifest (Java 9 module -> OSGi)

[nedtwigg]

In gradle 3.4, there is now support for separate api and implementation dependencies.

dependencies {
    api 'commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:3.1'
    implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.5'
}

Soon (Q2 2017), it will also support declaring which packages are API.

api {
    exports 'com.somepackage'
}

Once this ships, we will create a plugin, osgi.bndautomanifest, which will use this metadata to automatically configure osgi.bndmanifest.

This way any library with Java 9 module metadata can easily support OSGi. Also, the api and implementation separation allows gradle to enforce that the implementation details aren't accidentally leaking into the api.

[nedtwigg]

gradle-modules-plugin