I can try to investigate if you raise a JIRA and add the steps to reproduce ...

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:13, Achim Nierbeck <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok,
>
> this was exactly what I was expecting from the behavior.
> Now with a concrete example. Working on Pax-Web, one of the bundles
> has an optional dependency to eventadmin service packages.
> Now the eventadmin service feature is deployed after the pax-web stuff.
> I do get an exception since the bundle that declared those packages as
> optional dependencies wasn't refreshed, but the service tracker already
> worked :(
>
> Thanks, Achim
>
>> So the features service tries to find out which bundles are to be refreshed.
>> This is done by checking all bundles previously installed (note that
>> if you install several features, even including dependencies, bundles
>> should only be resolved at the end, so it only considers bundles that
>> were installed before the installation of the current features) for
>> optional packages that could be refreshed or new fragments.
>> The code is in FeaturesServiceImpl#findBundlesToRefresh() if you want
>> to have a look.
>> There are certainly some possible enhancements here, as it basically
>> try to do a poor-man's resolution (or at least try to check if
>> fragment's host and packages can be matched ...)  I guess ideally,
>> we'd do a fake resolution, and this might become possible with the
>> next OBR generation, but not really now.
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 21:36, Achim Nierbeck <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> how does the refresh mechanism work for features?
>>> For example you have a features A deployed and deploy another features B.
>>> I sometimes see that certain bundles of features A are refreshed. How is
>>> this
>>> accomplished? How am I able to trigger something like this?
>>>
>>> Greetings, Achim
>>>
>>
>>
>
>



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