I'm taking here about the ad-on bundles (like http, for example) rather than the framework. The dx tool needs to have classes that were compiled with a "new" compiler (i.e. greater than 1.5).
Thanks Bruce On 12/02/2010 13:33, "Karl Pauls" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> > >
