Hi, I'm wondering what the general opinion about using the Sling OSGi installer in ACE is?
The installer is not tied to Sling it just happens that we have developed it as part of the project. It's a general purpose installer which ootb is able to handle bundles and configurations like FileInstall. The main difference is that we separated the actual handling of the artifacts from the providers. So the installer itself is handling installation, update, and removal of artifacts and there are different plugins providing those artifacts. One of these plugins is a file provider (which basically works like FileInstall), another one (different bundle) reads artifacts from a JCR repository and so on. In addition, the installer handles retries, keeps state of what it did install and detects if a user did some manual changes. For example, you install bundle A in version 1.0 through the installer, the user updates this bundle to version 1.1 through the web console. Now you remove the 1.0 artifact from the directory. In this case, the 1.1 version should still be active and not be uninstalled. And so on. Oh, and like with FileInstall it's possible to add support for other artifact types. For example we have support for deployment packages etc. Just a rough description :) So, in general, WDYT? Regards Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler cziege...@apache.org
