I have to work this into our own bundle/application management system.
Unfortuneatly, I can't use or link to external controls.
Since our applications may consist of more than one bundle, I need to
create an xml file that links our applications to the list of bundles in the
OBR. Should I even use an OBR at this point? I could just put the bundle
information in the same xml file and use that information to install,
uninstall, update, start and stop applications (manipulating bundles using
the bundle context seems trivial) - basically build my own OBR.
What direction do you think I should go? Should I use an OBR or make my
own?
If I should use the OBR, should I be using the RepositoryAdmin service?
If I should use RepositoryAdmin, what goes in the parameter (the flags) of
the 1.6.2+ Resolver.deploy(int args) method?
Thanks for your help, and please let me know if I need to clarify.
Bruce
P.S. Thanks for the advice Richard. If I can't get this working, I'll
look at the source code for the Felix Web Console. However, I suspect that
they are not linking to an OBR, but using the bundle context to manipulate
the bundles. I'm thinking that since I have the OBR working up to the point
that I'm trying to deploy the bundle (if I could only figure out what flags
to put in), I may use the bundle context to install the bundle at that point
- since I can query the url from the resource from the
RepositoryAdmin.discoverResources() call.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard S. Hall [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 8:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: GUI to control installing bundles from an OBR
Doesn't Felix Web Console offer a GUI for OBR as well as for managing
bundles? You could look into using that.
-> richard
On 3/2/11 16:42, Bruce Hartman wrote:
Hi, I'm attempting to create a GUI that will display available bundles,
and whether they are installed, uninstalled, need to be updated, stopped or
started, etc.
I'm creating an OBR with all the bundles we will supply.
My question is open ended - pretty much, "how do I do this". Here is
what I'm planning to do. Please feel free to tell me if I'm on the right
track, or if there's a better mechanism. Thanks in advance.
I am planning to get the RepositoryAdmin service, from the Felix bundle
repository 1.6.2, to load my OBR, and install bundles from it (when the user
presses the "install" button).
Does this sound like the best way to do this?
If it does, I have a couple of questions about the Resolver object (which
I can get from the RepositoryAdmin object):
1. Where is the Javadocs for the Felix bundle repository - 1.6.2?
2. The Resolver object has a deploy method. The only documentation for
this that I could find used the deploy(boolean start) method. However, in
1.6.2, the method deploy takes an int. Digging around, I could see that
this was for passing in some kind of flags. Is there some documentation for
what the flags are and what they mean? Otherwise, would deploy(0) be equal
to the old deploy(false)?
Thanks so much for responses.
Bruce
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