How does Orbit manage multiple versions of the same library?
Luckily OSGi supports multiple versions of the same bundle installed and running at the same time so this does not present any particular runtime problems. At development time however there is a challenge of project naming. Since the Eclipse convention has been to use the bundle symbolic name as the name of the project, there would be a conflict if two versions of the same project need to be in the workspace at the same time. The initial direction here is to use a CVS branch for each version of a library. So, for example, for javax.servlet there is version 2.3 and 2.4 of the library. Correspondingly, there branches named v2_3 and v2_4 are created to hold the related content. HEAD of the javax.servlet project is empty except for a readme.txt file indicating that all work is carried out in branches.
