I haven’t looked at the condition spec nor IPOJO’s @Controller, but for many 
years you’ve been able to influence the presence of DS component instances 
through configuration by making the component configuration-required and only 
supplying configurations for the instances you want.

I seem to recall also controlling whether instances are created by having a 
mandatory reference and adjusting the target filter in configuration so it is 
or isn’t satisfied.

David Jencks

> On Sep 7, 2021, at 6:02 AM, Thomas Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The condition specification is part of OSGi R8 Core and Compendium
> releases.  The OSGi R8 Core (Framework) implementation is available now
> with implementations available from Felix and Equinox.  The
> condition factory specification is in the works but is not going to be
> included with the OSGI R8 specifications (
> https://github.com/osgi/osgi/blob/design/168/.design/design-168.md).  But
> the declarative services specification for OSGi R8 has been updated to
> include how conditions can influence service components.  A release
> candidate of Felix SCR 2.2.0-RC1 will be available shortly that implements
> the latest OSGi R8 release candidate APIs.  The final release of OSGi R8
> compendium will hopefully be released by October.  All of that means that
> it is not available in Karaf at this time.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 6:14 AM Bengt Rodehav <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Karl for your tip.
>> 
>> Do you know which version of DS/SCR is required for using the new condition
>> specification? Is it included in Karaf?
>> 
>> Unfortunately I don't have the possibility to help develop iPojo. I've
>> helped out in a few projects before but I think iPojo is a bit over my head
>> both in skills and time.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Bengt
>> 
>> Den tis 7 sep. 2021 kl 11:10 skrev Karl Pauls <[email protected]>:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I agree that iPojo is a very good component model and it will be hard
>>> to replace it. I think the closest you could come to replace it with
>>> would be a combination of Declarative Services (DS/SCR) and the new
>>> condition specification [0] - obviously depends on what you where
>>> actually doing with iPojo (for a simple @Controller it might be enough
>>> to use conditions).
>>> 
>>> That said, let me point out: there is no reason iPojo couldn't still
>>> be developed - we just lack somebody to work on it for the time being.
>>> If you (and/or others you know) want to continue to develop it that
>>> certainly could be a way forward as well.
>>> 
>>> regards,
>>> 
>>> Karl
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [0]
>>> 
>> http://docs.osgi.org/specification/osgi.core/8.0.0/service.condition.html#service.condition
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 10:39 AM Bengt Rodehav <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have noticed that iPojo is not supported any more. That is
>> unfortunate
>>>> for us since we have built a lot of our functionality on iPojo. It's
>>>> actually the best component model I have seen so far.
>>>> 
>>>> We need to move on to something else then. What would you suggest? What
>>>> alternative is closest to iPojo in functionality?
>>>> 
>>>> The big difference for us has been the @Controller annotation. With
>> this
>>> we
>>>> have a system where we enable/disable services using configurations. I
>>>> really need some way to achieve the same but with another model than
>>> iPojo.
>>>> I would appreciate any suggestions.
>>>> 
>>>> /Bengt
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Karl Pauls
>>> [email protected]
>>> 
>> 

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