Many thanks Neil for your answer!
I will pay a look at OBR as you recommend. Also, you told me that "the core can
tell you aboutunsatisfied package imports", may I ask how can I accomplish that?
>________________________________
> De: Neil Bartlett <njbartl...@gmail.com>
>Para: Matias SM <elmismocorreo-o...@yahoo.com.ar>; OSGi Developer Mail List
><osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org>
>Enviado: miércoles, 30 de noviembre de 2011 22:03
>Asunto: Re: [osgi-dev] Re: Retrieve bundle's missing dependencies
>
>Hello Matias,
>
>My apologies, somebody should have tried to answer this question much earlier.
>
>Blueprint does not do anything like this. You may want to use it for
>other things, but it's irrelevant for the problem you describe. Nor is
>there really anything in core OSGi... the core can tell you about
>unsatisfied package imports, but you would need a mapping that tells
>you which bundles are available that export those packages and where
>they are.
>
>What you really need is a resolver technology that you can query for a
>complete set of bundles that fulfil your requirement. The technology
>you should be looking at is OBR; there is an implementation in Apache
>Felix (it runs on all the other frameworks also). See the following
>document:
>
> http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-osgi-bundle-repository.html
>
>Note that OBR is currently being standardised by the OSGi Alliance,
>and there is a public preview available of the new OBR specification
>(RFC 112). However until that specification is released, the OBR
>implementation in Felix is IMHO the best available solution for what
>you want.
>
>For completeness I should mention that p2 from Equinox/Eclipse can
>also help with the same kind of problem. However you appear to be
>quite concerned about being lightweight and minimising dependencies --
>a commendable attitude!-- and unfortunately p2 is a much heavier
>dependency than OBR.
>
>Regards,
>Neil
>
>
>
>
>
>On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Matias SM
><elmismocorreo-o...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>> Anybody has some insight to share about this? Even a RTFM is greatly welcome
>> if I'm told which F. Manual should I read.
>>
>> Maybe there is a better way to do what I need. What I need to do is to
>> "download" the necessaries bundles (dependencies) to resolve a given bundle.
>> My use case is as follows:
>> - I receive a bundle from a stream (network connection)
>> - I need to activate the bundle in the current framework
>> - The received bundle may have some missing dependencies, so I need to find
>> them (here is where my question rise, if I had the name of the "missing"
>> bundles, I might be able to find them).
>>
>> I'm trying to keep the framework that uses this mechanism as light as
>> possible, that is why I would prefer not to add blueprint as a new
>> requirement.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
>> Regards
>>
>> ________________________________
>> De: "elmismocorreo-o...@yahoo.com.ar" <elmismocorreo-o...@yahoo.com.ar>
>> Para: "osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org" <osgi-dev@mail.osgi.org>
>> Enviado: miércoles, 9 de noviembre de 2011 18:52
>> Asunto: Retrieve bundle's missing dependencies
>>
>> Hi everybody, I'm _really new_ with OSGi so forgive me if my question is
>> basic or vague.
>> I was looking for a way of getting a bundle's missing dependencies (that
>> keep it installed and not resolved). I did some googling and found that
>> (apparently) it can be done using blueprint [1]. However, I was wondering if
>> it can be done using only OSGi's core.
>> Any piece of advice is very welcome.
>> Regards
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.osgi.org/javadoc/r4v42/org/osgi/service/blueprint/container/BlueprintEvent.html
>>
>>
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