There's nothing in the architecture that would prevent it.  Should be a
fairly easy thing to work in.

Ben

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Burke Mamlin <[email protected]>wrote:

> Seems like a fair request.  I can't think of any advantages of having
> separate instances and understand the assumption that it would be the same
> instance.  Unless there's a architectural reason that we can't use the same
> instance (Ben?), it sounds ticket-worthy to me.
>
> -Burke
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Rowan Seymour <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Is there a reason why the instance of a module's activator used for
>> startup isn't the same instance as the one used for shutdown? Looking at
>> the getModuleActivator() method in Module one can see that a new
>> instance is created each time. I only ask because I spent forever tracking
>> down a bug where a instance variable was being shared unsuccessfully
>> between the startup and shutdown methods.
>>
>> public ModuleActivator getModuleActivator() {
>> try {
>>  ModuleClassLoader classLoader =
>> ModuleFactory.getModuleClassLoader(this);
>>  if (classLoader == null)
>> throw new ModuleException("The classloader is null", getModuleId());
>>  Class<?> c = classLoader.loadClass(getActivatorName());
>>  Object o = c.newInstance();
>> if (ModuleActivator.class.isAssignableFrom(o.getClass()))
>>  setModuleActivator((ModuleActivator) o);
>>  }
>> catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
>>  throw new ModuleException("Unable to load/find moduleActivator: '" +
>> getActivatorName() + "'", name, e);
>>  }
>> catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
>>  throw new ModuleException("Unable to load/access moduleActivator: '" +
>> getActivatorName() + "'", name, e);
>>  }
>> catch (InstantiationException e) {
>>  throw new ModuleException("Unable to load/instantiate moduleActivator:
>> '" + getActivatorName() + "'", name, e);
>>  }
>>  return moduleActivator;
>> }
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