Being "osgi-bundleable" is a very good news ! Am I right if I basically read "it does not work" between the lines ?
Did you try different osgi engines ? or GC strategies ? I had great hopes in osgi, what do you think you need to solve this ? cheers, phil On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Rickard Öberg <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm pretty much done porting Streamflow over to OSGi, but I have to admit > that the result is pretty depressing. The model itself is awesome, and I > like the abilities, but classloading in Java seems to be just broken. See > here for details: > http://www.jroller.com/rickard/entry/osgi_and_classloading > > Basically, I was not able to get class GC to be deterministic when a bundle > is updated or uninstalled. Sometimes the classloader is GC'ed, sometimes > not. Heap dump analysis (using VisualVM, which is *great* if not exactly > well documented) shows that there are no hanging references (which is > logical since *sometimes* the GC works!), and yet sometimes the old > classloder simply won't be GC'ed. Depressing! > > My conclusion is that it is fine to use OSGi in production, if a restart of > the VM is done on each update. For development you can dynamically update > bundles, as long as you're prepared to restart the VM every once in a while > due to OutOfMemory errors. > > /Rickard > > _______________________________________________ > qi4j-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev >
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