Right, we have the same kind of launcher in Karaf that even enable us to update the osgi framework itself.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 17:43, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mittwoch, den 08.06.2011, 11:34 -0400 schrieb Richard S. Hall: >> On 6/8/11 11:20, Felix Meschberger wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Am Mittwoch, den 08.06.2011, 17:12 +0200 schrieb Eugen Reiswich: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> >> >> I need to restart an OSGi application programmatically in Java. How can I >> >> do this? >> > AFAICT the "official" way is to call Bundle.update() on the system >> > bundle. >> >> True. >> >> > BUT: This requires support from the framework launcher. >> >> Not entirely true. > > Yes, I just realized that I remained in the 4.1 times when Peter posted > his reply. > >> >> If you want to simply restart the framework, then calling update() on >> the system bundle would be sufficient. However, if you want to restart >> the JVM (e.g., to change what's on the boot class path) then you need >> help from the launcher. > > In fact, what we do in the Sling launcher is that we create "root" class > loader to load the framework with and on framework restart we throw away > the old one and create a new one. > > I think this further helps PermGen GC --- but I would be happy to learn > that I am wrong ;-) > > Regards > Felix > > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > [email protected] > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > -- ------------------------ Guillaume Nodet ------------------------ Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ ------------------------ Open Source SOA http://fusesource.com _______________________________________________ OSGi Developer Mail List [email protected] https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
