I'm following the same logic discussed and applied in IGBF-1906. The changes made in IGBF-1906 were undone by David for ProtAnnot when we were refactoring the app for JDK 21. I am now re-implementing them for the IGB dependencies. By declaring an import-package in the maven-bundle-plugin for the IGB dependencies with just a single version(i.e. 10.0.0), it sets the manifest's import-package version for those IGB dependencies to anything 10.0.0 or greater. Compare this to the normal convention of not passing anything in to the import-package as part of maven-bundle-plugin, which leads to the manifest giving an upper bound of version="[10.0,11)". It would be more "correct" to have the upper bound, as the assumption is that by changing to a new major version we are indicating that there are new changes that would break backwards compatibility. However, it would mean that anytime we changed the major version of IGB, we would need to re-release all apps, whether or not they were compatible.

Yes, I think what you have said is correct. I just wanted to double-check.

IBM WebSphere Application server documentation writes:

...Import-Package: org.apache.commons.logging;version="1.0.4"
Import-Package
This header declares the external dependencies of the bundle that the OSGi Framework uses to resolve the bundle. Specific versions or version ranges for each package can be declared. In this example manifest file, the org.apache.commons.logging package is required at Version 1.0.4 or later.

Link: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was/9.0.5?topic=files-example-osgi-bundle-manifest-file

The authoritative answer is available from osgi.org:

If a version range is specified as a single version, it must be interpreted as the range [version, infinity)

See:

• https://docs.osgi.org/specification/osgi.core/8.0.0/framework.module.html#i3189032 (source of the above quote)
• https://docs.osgi.org/specification/osgi.core/8.0.0/framework.module.html#framework.module.importpackage

All ProtAnnot PR's are now merged.

ProtAnnot 10.0.1 has been released to the app store: https://apps.bioviz.org/apps/org.lorainelab.igb.protannot#

Tested on Mac on IGB 10.0.0 as well as a development version of IGB with the IGB version set to 11. I was able to install and run ProtAnnot from the app store or app manager. The ProtAnnot icon was also visible from either the Tools menu or the right-click menu.

Closing ticket.