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From: "Jan S. Rellermeyer" <rellermeyer@inf.ethz.ch>
To: <felix-dev@incubator.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Re[2]: autodiscover bundles?
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:03:51 +0100
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Well, adding works in most cases. I run my R-OSGi with Eclipse and the
dynamically created proxies can be installed. However, uninstalling
plugins/bundles leads to nasty exceptions when Eclipse is closed. Seems =
like
Eclipse keeps some kind of list of installed bundles at a higher layer =
and
is highly surprised when things are disappearing on OSGi-level...=20

Regards,=20

Jan.=20

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ETH Zurich, MSc Jan S. Rellermeyer,
Information and Communication Systems Research Group (IKS),
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Tel +41 44 632 30 38, http://www.iks.inf.ethz.ch
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kriens [mailto:Peter.Kriens@aQute.biz]=20
> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 4:55 PM
> To: Toni Menzel
> Cc: felix-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re[2]: autodiscover bundles?
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> Eclipse only discovers new bundles at startup. Due to=20
> problems in the higher layers Eclipse is not capable (yet) of=20
> dynamically adding and removing plugins,
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> You can try it out by placing the File Install bundle in the=20
> Eclipse plugin directory, this should work fine except that=20
> some higher layers might get confused.
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> Kind regards,
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>      Peter Kriens
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> TM> Hi Wouter,
> TM> A very simple autodiscovery (based on observing a directory) is=20
> TM> Peter Krien's FileInstaller.
> TM> You can find it here: http://www.aqute.biz/Code/FileInstall
> TM> It's a pure bundle which works on any OSGi Implementation.
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> TM> I don't know if equinox functionality you descibe is usable on=20
> TM> felix, too? (would be nice to know)
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> TM> greets,
> TM> Toni
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> TM> Wouter de Vaal schrieb:
> >> Hi,
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> >> I'm investigating osgi frameworks and I was wondering if Felix has=20
> >> some sort of autodiscovery functionality as eclipse has.=20
> Some when a=20
> >> jar is dumped in a folder, felix automatically loads this=20
> as an osgi=20
> >> bundle.
> >>
> >> Thanx
> >> Wouter
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> --=20
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