> On 10 Nov 2016, at 15:38, Carsten Ziegeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jan Willem Janssen wrote >> >>> On 10 Nov 2016, at 16:18, Carsten Ziegeler <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Let's assume you have an app, consisting of dozens of services, for >>> simplicity let's assume they are all in one bundle. Now you don't want >>> to start any of these services until some condition is met. >>> Clearly, you can add these special reference to each and every of the >>> dozen services, but that doesn't look nice to me. >> >> Given that they all reside in the same bundle makes it quite easy to let >> all services act upon a bundle-local service that acts as a gatekeeper for >> starting up the other services. It makes it quite explicit when things do >> not start up as to why this happens. >> >> Using the module layer to solve this problem sounds still like a wrong >> approach to me. >> > > I know that my bundle does not work at all if lets say a database is not > available. However in my app I don't need a dependency on any database > service as my services are picked up using whiteboard. > > I don't see any reason to start my bundle at all.
But I don’t see any reason NOT to start the bundle. It has no cost if it’s not doing anything. And if a database bundle comes along later, great. Neil > > Carsten > > -- > Carsten Ziegeler > Adobe Research Switzerland > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
