Fragments do behave like usual bundles you just can't start them cause they are attached to a host and need to be found by the host. But yes you are right for the host bundle to realize the fragment is gone it needs to be refreshed / restarted. Though for those kind of dynamics I'd prefer using a OSGi service, that is a far better approach for dynamics and plugin behavior, especially the whiteboard extender is best to be used for a "plugin" architecture.
My first Vaadin Demo that got me to creating the pax-for-vaadin project uses services for it's dynamics, it can be found at [1]. regards, Achim [1] - https://github.com/ANierbeck/osgi-vaadin-demo 2012/12/19 Matt Brozowski <bro...@opennms.org> > I don't a great deal about fragments… but I was under the impression that > you couldn't uninstall them and have their references go away. > > Doesn't that mean I would have to restart the entire webapp if I wanted to > uninstall a plugin? So no way to dynamically add/remove these? > > Matt > > On Dec 19, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Achim Nierbeck <bcanh...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Matt, > > nope pax-web doesn't support this yet, and in a osgi context I don't think > it's needed. You can attach your osgi-fragment to a web-application and > this will be as if it's the same web-application. :) > > regards, Achim > > > 2012/12/19 Matt Brozowski <bro...@opennms.org> > >> Does any of the pax-web infrastructure support web fragments? I would >> like to be able to add 'web app plugins' the extends my basic web app by >> adding bundles with <web-fragment> information >> >> Matt Brozowski >> _______________________________________________ >> general mailing list >> general@lists.ops4j.org >> http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general >> > > > > -- > > Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC > OPS4J Pax Web <http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/> Committer & > Project Lead > OPS4J Pax for Vaadin <http://team.ops4j.org/wiki/display/PAXVAADIN/Home> > Commiter & Project Lead > blog <http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/> > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > general@lists.ops4j.org > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > general@lists.ops4j.org > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > -- Apache Karaf <http://karaf.apache.org/> Committer & PMC OPS4J Pax Web <http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/> Committer & Project Lead OPS4J Pax for Vaadin <http://team.ops4j.org/wiki/display/PAXVAADIN/Home> Commiter & Project Lead blog <http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/>
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