I have a class with dependencies which I want to hot deploy without restarting the dependencies. The class has an interface but there's only one concrete implementation.
Initially I created a single bundle with exported the interface and registered the implementation using activator and implementation classes which were not exported. However, if I update the bundle, bundles which use the registered service get restarted after the update when PackageAdmin#refreshPackages is called (this is automatic when using fileinstall).
I have fixed this by creating a separate api bundle.
Is this the best way to achieve this?
Would you ever have a bundle which exports its api and includes the implementation in the same bundle. As far as I can see any give bundle would either export all its classes or no classes. What am I missing?