Why would you need 1.5 to be able to dex the bundle (the framework
itself is build for 1.3 btw.)?

regards,

Karl

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Jackson, Bruce <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Pablo
>
> See the attached code. The biggest problem I've encountered is that the
> Felix distribution is a huge pain to build under JDK 1.5, and therefore to
> be able to use some of the bundles (for example the http service) that are
> part of the distribution. Its not a simple job of just changing a couple of
> entries in POM files: some components download pre-built JAR files from the
> web and explode these, thereby having classes built under 1.4 which will not
> work when you dexify the bundles.
>
> This is something that would be great to see some work done on by the Felix
> community, because while its true that the basic Felix core does and will
> support Android, most of the add-on bundles wont.
>
> For my part, the ideal solution would be to see the whole framework be based
> on JDK 1.5 and not 1.4.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce
>
>
> On 12/02/2010 11:32, "pablomj" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Bruce, I am trying the same, but I don't have the solution yet.
>> Do you have some advance?
>> Salutations, thanks.
>> Pablo.
>>
>>
>> Jackson, Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>> The Felix site has a useful section on getting things going on Android (
>>> http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-and-google-android.html) but
>>> isn't
>>> so clear about embedding the framework into an Android app"
>>>
>>> "Apache Felix can also be integrated with an Android application. To
>>> achieve
>>> this, you need to embed Felix into onCreate() method of your Activity
>>> class
>>> (see Android docs for more details on how to use an Activity) and process
>>> your bundles as shown above."
>>>
>>> Has anyone got an example of how you do this? I understand how to write
>>> the
>>> Android app, and I get the point being made here. What I need to
>>> understand
>>> is:
>>>
>>> 1. How do you launch the Felix framework. What do I need to instantiate?
>>> 2. Where does the framework get its boot configuration (i.e. what bundles
>>> to
>>> load, run levels, environment variables, etc) from in this case?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>



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