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Posted to dev@felix.apache.org by Joe Toth <jo...@gmail.com> on 2006/09/22 22:44:28 UTC
Expanded Bundle
I apologize in advance since this is, kind of, a user question, but there is
no user mailing list yet...and I'm also new to OSGi in general.
Is there a way to install an expanded bundle?
Basically, it would be nice if I could do something like 'install
classpath:/home/jtoth/project/bin" which would have the MANIFEST/MANIFEST.MF
and classes as a bundled jar. Its nice to be able to use hot class
swapping, plus if the MANIFEST/MANIFEST.MF changes to automatically 'update'
the bundle.
Then I could even autostart all the bundles in development...
felix.auto.start.1= \
classpath:/home/jtoth/project/bin ...
Or is there any other way to develop bundles than packaging them?
Thanks
Re: Expanded Bundle
Posted by Joe Toth <jo...@gmail.com>.
Referencing an exploded JAR works great, thanks!
Its nice when developing things to be able to hit 'save' and check your
application without having some kind of intermediate step, which I know is
possible with Eclipse Builders and an Ant (Maven?) script to 'update' the
bundle. So that seems like a good solution to me.
Thanks
On 9/22/06, Richard S. Hall <he...@ungoverned.org> wrote:
>
> You can install an exploded bundle JAR file by specifying a URL like:
>
> reference:file:/path/to/my/bundle/
>
> The path should point to a JAR file that is exploded in the exact
> structure of a bundle JAR, such as if you simply did a "jar xf" on the
> bundle.
>
> You will not necessarily automatically see changes in the
> framework...generically you will still need to do an "update" on the
> bundle to see the changes and you could run into problems if you are
> using native libraries...
>
> -> richard
>
>
> Joe Toth wrote:
> > I apologize in advance since this is, kind of, a user question, but
> > there is
> > no user mailing list yet...and I'm also new to OSGi in general.
> >
> > Is there a way to install an expanded bundle?
> >
> > Basically, it would be nice if I could do something like 'install
> > classpath:/home/jtoth/project/bin" which would have the
> > MANIFEST/MANIFEST.MF
> > and classes as a bundled jar. Its nice to be able to use hot class
> > swapping, plus if the MANIFEST/MANIFEST.MF changes to automatically
> > 'update'
> > the bundle.
> >
> > Then I could even autostart all the bundles in development...
> >
> > felix.auto.start.1= \
> > classpath:/home/jtoth/project/bin ...
> >
> > Or is there any other way to develop bundles than packaging them?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
Re: Expanded Bundle
Posted by "Richard S. Hall" <he...@ungoverned.org>.
Richard S. Hall wrote:
> You can install an exploded bundle JAR file by specifying a URL like:
>
> reference:file:/path/to/my/bundle/
>
> The path should point to a JAR file that is exploded in the exact
> structure of a bundle JAR, such as if you simply did a "jar xf" on the
> bundle.
That should say, "The path should point to a directory that is exploded..."
-> richard
>
> You will not necessarily automatically see changes in the
> framework...generically you will still need to do an "update" on the
> bundle to see the changes and you could run into problems if you are
> using native libraries...
>
> -> richard
>
>
> Joe Toth wrote:
>> I apologize in advance since this is, kind of, a user question, but
>> there is
>> no user mailing list yet...and I'm also new to OSGi in general.
>>
>> Is there a way to install an expanded bundle?
>>
>> Basically, it would be nice if I could do something like 'install
>> classpath:/home/jtoth/project/bin" which would have the
>> MANIFEST/MANIFEST.MF
>> and classes as a bundled jar. Its nice to be able to use hot class
>> swapping, plus if the MANIFEST/MANIFEST.MF changes to automatically
>> 'update'
>> the bundle.
>>
>> Then I could even autostart all the bundles in development...
>>
>> felix.auto.start.1= \
>> classpath:/home/jtoth/project/bin ...
>>
>> Or is there any other way to develop bundles than packaging them?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
Re: Expanded Bundle
Posted by "Richard S. Hall" <he...@ungoverned.org>.
You can install an exploded bundle JAR file by specifying a URL like:
reference:file:/path/to/my/bundle/
The path should point to a JAR file that is exploded in the exact
structure of a bundle JAR, such as if you simply did a "jar xf" on the
bundle.
You will not necessarily automatically see changes in the
framework...generically you will still need to do an "update" on the
bundle to see the changes and you could run into problems if you are
using native libraries...
-> richard
Joe Toth wrote:
> I apologize in advance since this is, kind of, a user question, but
> there is
> no user mailing list yet...and I'm also new to OSGi in general.
>
> Is there a way to install an expanded bundle?
>
> Basically, it would be nice if I could do something like 'install
> classpath:/home/jtoth/project/bin" which would have the
> MANIFEST/MANIFEST.MF
> and classes as a bundled jar. Its nice to be able to use hot class
> swapping, plus if the MANIFEST/MANIFEST.MF changes to automatically
> 'update'
> the bundle.
>
> Then I could even autostart all the bundles in development...
>
> felix.auto.start.1= \
> classpath:/home/jtoth/project/bin ...
>
> Or is there any other way to develop bundles than packaging them?
>
> Thanks
>