Plugin OSGI partially reexport

Question

Is that possible to reexport only part of a dependency plugin?

I mean ...

Plugin_1 has 3 exported packages

com.p1
com.p2
com.p3

When I reexport Plugin_1 I don't wanna reexport the package "com.p2". Is there some way to do that?

*It is important to say that Plugin_1 cannot be changed!

Why this: Plugin_1 is a legacy plugin that cannot be touched. It has bunches of classes that I wanna provide through a single brand new plugin (eg: Plugin_New) with reexport OSGI feature, but some of these reexported classes (the ones on "com.p2" package ) should be hidden cause I wanna clients using the new classes I just create on the new plugin. Plugin_1 code refactoring is out of question cause it still being used by other systems.

Answer 1

In OSGi, re-export is a concept or Require-Bundle. Require-bundle is in almost all cases a really bad idea .

If you you just use Package-Imports and -Exports then any problem you might have in this area magically disappears. :-)