This is a clear problem, declarative services are new and no tools
have been made so far to debug and help.
However, it should not be that hard to make a tool for the OSGi
command shell (org.osgi.tools.console.jar in membercvs) that parses
the declarations and does some analysis? Felix and Equinox also have
shells that are extendable. (In R5 we will look at creating one
extension model).
Kind regards,
Peter kriens
NM> Hi folks,
NM> I have started to use declarative services for my project and endured a
NM> fair amount of pain doing so. The main reason is the lack of good tools
NM> to find out the wiring problems in my component declarations.
NM> Most of the time the properties of services and target filters on
NM> references don't match. The end result is that a whole bunch of services
NM> are never activated and its hard to find out why. This is despite the
NM> fact that I am only using static properties and no service factories.
NM> How do you deal with similar problems? Its not hard to imagine
NM> processing all the component declarations in a given set of bundles to
NM> find out the wiring between components and possibly visualize it. I hope
NM> others on this mailing list would also benefit from your suggestions and
NM> tips.
NM> If it helps to know, I am using Eclipse PDE as my IDE and Equinox as my
NM> OSGI runtime.
NM> Thanks,
NM> Nikunj
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