Scala libraries as OSGi bundles
As OSGi purely relies on Java, it is easy and straightforward to enable OSGi for Scala: Just provide the Scala libraries (scala-lang.jar, scala-swing.jar, etc.) as OSGi bundles with suitable bundle manifests. The “official” Scala libraries are not (yet) delivered as OSGi bundles. There is an Eclipse plug-in which is part of the Scala IDE for Eclipse which basically is an OSGi bundle, but it is an all-in-one bundle (assembles scala-*.jar) and - very important - contains a rather special bundle manifest that is not-so-good for general purpose.
Therefore I have created the scala-lang-osgi project which provides OSGi bundles for each Scala library. No changes are made to the libraries themselves but only the necessary manifest headers are added to the MANIFEST.MF file. All OSGi-fied Scala libraries are deployed to the scala-tools.org Maven repository with group id org.scala-lang-osgi using the same artifact id and version as the non-OSGi Scala libraries (e.g. scala-library, scala-swing, etc.). Of course there is also a snapshot repository.
These OSGi-fied Scala libraries are already used in projects that rely on OSGi and Scala, e.g. ScalaModules and BindForge. If you also go for OSGi on Scala, please give it a try and give me your feedback.
