Thank you for your insights, Carsten! That saves me hitting that wall ;) I'm curious how your idea with artificial bundles would work. Would the scripts in the resource tree be exposed via one or more artificial bundle, each, importing the packages required by the scripts? And then the scripting engines could run the scripts using the bundle class loader of these artificial bundles. Is that right?
If that is correct, I guess that would benefit from the upcoming OSGi Connect specification (if I recall the name correctly). Regards Julian On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:44 PM Carsten Ziegeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > As Julian suspected class loaders are caching. Initially we tried just > swapping things in the background but that didn't work due to the class > loader caching and that's out of control. > > A better solution would be to avoid the DCLM completely and rather > leverage OSGi more by for example creating artificial bundles with > imports which are then used by scripting. Similarly all scripts are > currently loaded by a single class loader. If a class changes where just > one of the scripts is based on, everything is still reloaded. That's not > really modular :) > > Or in other words the problem could potentially be solved but that's a > rather larger work. Unless there is something we haven't thought of yet. > > Regards > Carsten > > Am 22.10.2019 um 10:21 schrieb Konrad Windszus: > > Hi Julian, > > thanks a lot for bringing up this topic. Indeed the restart cascade causes > > some issues for me as well. Just invalidating the cache of the DCLM without > > restarting it fully sounds reasonable to me, but I am not that familiar > > with class loader insights. I vaguely remember that the restart might be > > necessary due to static cache fields but I don't remember the details... > > Maybe Carsten remembers... > > Konrad > > > >> On 22. Oct 2019, at 10:00, Julian Sedding <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all > >> > >> I have observed repeatedly that reinstalling bundles of a custom Sling > >> (actually AEM) application causes a lot of activity in the OSGi > >> framework and thus can take quite a long time (10s of seconds to > >> minutes), which feels quite disruptive during development where > >> frequent deployments are common. > >> > >> As far as I can see the Dynamic Class Loader Manager (DCLM) does "the > >> right thing" and restarts itself when a bundle whose classes have been > >> loaded via the dynamic class loader is reinstalled. The restart of the > >> DCLM then causes all services referencing it to restart as well, > >> causing, amongst others, scripting engines to restart and generally > >> triggering a cascade of service restarts. > >> > >> This seems to be especially common with bundles providing model > >> classes that are used in rendering scripts (a prime use-case for > >> customizations), but is not limited to such cases. Note: it is > >> necessary to run a rendering script using the model before > >> reinstalling the bundle in order to cause the restarts > >> > >> I was wondering if it wouldn't be possible to change the DCLM in a way > >> that it doesn't need to restart, but that it just swaps out the class > >> loader(s) behind the facade.I don't have much experience with > >> implementing custom class loaders, but I have a hunch that this may be > >> difficult to get right due to class loader internal caching of loaded > >> classes. > >> > >> Is there anyone more knowledgable in this area who could provide an > >> assessment regarding the feasibility of such an approach? > >> > >> Regards > >> Julian > > > > -- > -- > Carsten Ziegeler > Adobe Research Switzerland > [email protected]
