I agree. The question is does it make sense to have the features available but not installed ? If not we could just change the behavior without adding any flags at all.
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:18, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guillaume, > > currently, if you drop a features descriptor ino the deploy folder, the > features are present, but not installed and the bundles are not started. > > So the users have to install the features by hand after. > > More over, it's the same behavior with a KAR: no features in the KAR are > installed/started. > > On the other hand, it could have sense to have features installed/started > automatically when adding the features URL. > > For instance, adding the Camel features descriptor URL could automatically > install/start camel-core, camel-spring and camel-blueprint features. > > Regards > JB > > On Fri 27/05/11 11:08 , Guillaume Nodet wrote:: > > What would be the effect ? installing the feature or starting the > bundles, or both ? > I think dropping a feature descriptor in the deploy folder should > automatically install the feature (and start the bundles), I'm not > sure to see what the benefit of not doing that would be. > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:54, Jean-Baptiste Onofré [email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> What do you think about adding an autostart attribute on the features >> element ? >> >> The purpose is to be able to have something like: >> >> >> ... >> >> >> When an user register a features descriptor (using features:addurl), deploy >> a KAR containing a features descriptor or drop a features descriptor in the >> deploy folder, Karaf will try to automatically start the features with >> autostart flag set to true. >> >> It will avoid users to: >> - start by hand features contained in a KAR: the user can drop the KAR into >> the deploy folder, but he must connect to Karaf and start the features by >> hand >> - start by hand features after an addurl when the user "controls" the >> features content >> >> Thoughts ? >> >> Regards >> JB >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > ------------------------ > Guillaume Nodet > ------------------------ > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ > ------------------------ > Open Source SOA > http://fusesource.com > > > > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com
