On Aug 24, 2007, at 13:29 , Felix Meschberger wrote:
Some time ago I posted a message on extending the Configuration Admin
implementation to support configuration contained in bundles to be
installed (see [1]). BJ Hargrave pointed me at the Deployment Admin
Specification part of the R4.1 Compendium specs.
We have now decided to go that way an implement the specification as
well as the Auto Configuration Specification, assuming there is no
ongoing work yet in the Apache Felix project.
In fact, within luminis we are just finishing a version of the
Deployment Admin specification which we intend to donate to Apache
Felix soon, so your timing is great and it's good to see there is
interest in the community for such an implementation. The
implementation has been written by Christian van Spaandonk and we are
currently cleaning it up and putting it through rigorous testing.
That still leaves the Auto Configuration Specification and a Maven
plugin to be done (and we might consider creating other build tools
that allow you to create these deployment packages, such as an Ant
plugin and a command line tool).
Finally, the Deployment Admin spec talks about Framework backdoors
required for bundle upgrade/removal fallback. I will investigate such
backdoors in my sandbox as I will also start the development in my
sandbox.
Karl already hinted at that, the 4.1 spec helps here, and some minor
adjustments might be helpful. Without much problem it will be
possible to keep this bundle framework independent though.
Expect a post from Christian soonish!
Greetings, Marcel
