DynamicImport-Package
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DynamicImport-Package is not widely used. Its purpose is to allow a bundle to be wired up to packages that may not be known about in advance. When a class is requested, if it cannot be solved via the bundle's existing imports, the Dynamic-ImportPackage allows other bundles to be considered for a wiring import to be added.
The dynamic import package is typically considered to be a backwards compatibility hook for those JARs which use many dynamic class accesses, such as Hibernate.
DynamicImport-Package: *
Notes
- Though DynamicImport-Package can be a life saver in certain circumstances it does revert the OSGi Framework to a very expensive class path for the packages involved. With DynamicImport-Package the OSGi Framework must revert to searching the public exported packages to find a match instead of the careful normal calculation. Especially using the wildcard is very harmful. The need for DynamicImport-Package usually is a symptom of a non-modular design.
