Hi Carsten, > I'm wondering what the general opinion about using the Sling OSGi > installer in ACE is?
does it support metatype (out of the box)? If so, I'll have a look at it for amdatu as well :) We just created an artifacthandler for fileinstall and submitted it to felix, but no sure if it will make it there.. (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-3241) grz Bram On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Carsten Ziegeler <cziege...@apache.org> wrote: > 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 >
