On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 3:36 PM,  <chris.g...@kiffer.be> wrote:
> I hesitate to prolong this thread, but FWIW: Google can index PDFs just
> fine, what their seachbot doesn't do is to click through "I agree to ..."
> checkboxes.
>
> Whether the "front page" of a web site should always display the same
> information is another question. Most don't.

The point was, that at the time there was no navigation at all to
reach the javadoc or pdfs. Believe me or not.


>
>> These sides are -completely- disconnected and run by very different
>> webmasters.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>       Peter Kriens
>>
>>> On 11 okt. 2016, at 16:28, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> It's no longer dead AFAICT, so I doubt that I can be very precise here.
>>>
>>> When the enRoute stuff first came up, several more or less front pages
>>> of osgi.org stopped displaying what they used to display, and
>>> displayed information about enRoute instead. I deleted my bookmarks,
>>> swore a bit, and moved on. As of today, the osgi.org front page is
>>> (back to?) displaying a front page, and searching in Google for
>>> 'ConfigurationListener' gets a hit for the 4.2 javadoc and no hit for
>>> the spec PDF, which is better than nothing.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Peter Kriens <peter.kri...@aqute.biz>
>>> wrote:
>>>> What URL went dead?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Benson Margulies
>>>> <bimargul...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Neil Bartlett <njbartl...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7 Oct 2016, at 22:33, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Neil Bartlett <njbartl...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7 Oct 2016, at 20:56, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Ferry Huberts <maili...@hupie.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/10/16 21:04, Benson Margulies wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am trying to express the following idea using DS:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "If service X is provisioned in this container, do not activate me
>>>>>> until it is activated and injected into me. If service X is not
>>>>>> provisioned in this container, go ahead and activate me without it."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> how about making the dependency: static + greedy + optional.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, in practical terms, how greedy is 'greedy'? What's the behavior?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Greedy means that if a service becomes available after your component
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> activated, then it will *always* be supplied to your component, even
>>>>>> if
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> forces a restart of the component due to the reference having static
>>>>>> policy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (It’s worth contrasting this with its opposite, reluctant: if you
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> an
>>>>>> optional, static, reluctant reference then your component will NOT be
>>>>>> restarted in order to give it a service that arrives after it is
>>>>>> activated.
>>>>>> That is, the component will continue to be bound to nothing even when
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> valid candidate service is available. While this makes perfect sense
>>>>>> if
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> take the time to think it through, OSGi newbies tend to find it
>>>>>> counterintuitive).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By the way, with a greedy reference, you will also get re-bound when
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> service comes along that has a higher ranking than the one you are
>>>>>> currently
>>>>>> bound to. Again, this happens even if it requires restarting the
>>>>>> component
>>>>>> due to a static reference policy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All this is in the R6 Compendium spec, Section 112.3.7 “Reference
>>>>>> Policy
>>>>>> Option†.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will do a better job of reading the specs when they are plain HTML
>>>>>> files, searched by google, and not fenced with a mile legal verbiage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please don’t misunderstand… when I give a reference to the spec
>>>>>> it’s to
>>>>>> back
>>>>>> up what I’m saying so that you know it’s true, and to give you
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> opportunity to dig deeper. It is certainly NOT an accusation that you
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> being lazy for not already having found this information yourself.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, sorry about the snark. I have a certain amount of pent-up
>>>>> frustration, especially after a bunch of URLs went dead when the
>>>>> enRoute info went up. Thanks as always for the help.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would also like the specs to be more searchable. The PDFs look
>>>>>> beautiful
>>>>>> but that’s not so important unless they are in book form, and who
>>>>>> wants
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> carry around a 1246 pages of Compendium?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Neil
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Neil
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> that way your component will get started always, and restarted once X
>>>>>> becomes available.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I fully appreciate that this concept is not compatible with the
>>>>>> generally dynamic approach of OSGi in general, and declarative
>>>>>> services in particular. However, I can think of a variation like:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "I am willing to wait N seconds for service X. If it isn't there by
>>>>>> then, activate me without it."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am taking a risk here -- it's always possible that some phenomenon
>>>>>> would result in a delay of longer than N. But in my case, the startup
>>>>>> properties of the containing application are such that this would be
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> low risk.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another possible approach would be to focus on provide/require
>>>>>> capability. I don't know how I would get DS to pay attention, but it
>>>>>> seems as if there's not enough information:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Provide-Capability:
>>>>>> osgi.service;objectClass:List<String>="com.basiste
>>>>>> ch.rosette.osgi.RosetteBundleWarmup,com.basistech.rosette.osgi.Rosett
>>>>>> eComponentService"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note that any properties are not represented here. So if the
>>>>>> dependency is specific to some filter on properties, you can't use
>>>>>> this data.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At the extreme, I could take very close control of start order, and
>>>>>> then go ahead and use optional references. That's a lot of start
>>>>>> order
>>>>>> management.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Finally? I could use configuration admin, by setting the reference
>>>>>> cardinality as part of provisioning. To do this cleanly, I think I'd
>>>>>> want some sort of management layer that generated these 'minimum
>>>>>> cardinality properties'; editing it in something like Karaf's cfg
>>>>>> files would be quite messy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there something I'm missing?
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