Re: Managing Dynamism

2011-07-15 Thread Christopher BROWN
Hello, This is the use case I'm implementing... My first real OSGi project is a web front end for a lightweight ERP platform that bundles a AJAX/JS GUI framework (the back office, no OSGi), where the front end (OSGi) runs in a separate process with an embedded Jetty web server. The front end

Re: Managing Dynamism

2011-07-15 Thread john . dunlap
That sounds perfect for what I'm trying to do! Quoting Marcel Offermans marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl: On 14 Jul 2011, at 23:00 , john.dun...@exceter.com wrote: I would like to hide the update mechanism from the end user. As far as the client is be concerned, the application should be

Re: Managing Dynamism

2011-07-15 Thread Marcel Offermans
Hello John, Probably makes sense to follow up on the ACE mailing list. We don't yet have users list so feel free to use the ace-dev list for that (I cc'ed this mail to it as well). Greetings, Marcel On 15 Jul 2011, at 15:36 , john.dun...@exceter.com john.dun...@exceter.com wrote: That

Managing Dynamism

2011-07-14 Thread john . dunlap
I'm interested in using OSGI as an update mechanism in a swing based app. However, I'm concerned that managing the extremely dynamic nature of OSGI is too difficult. How can guarantee that the client's OSGI container will remain in a known state which is identical to the state of the OSGI

Re: Managing Dynamism

2011-07-14 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 7/14/11 13:33, john.dun...@exceter.com wrote: I'm interested in using OSGI as an update mechanism in a swing based app. However, I'm concerned that managing the extremely dynamic nature of OSGI is too difficult. How can guarantee that the client's OSGI container will remain in a known

Re: Managing Dynamism

2011-07-14 Thread john . dunlap
I would like to hide the update mechanism from the end user. As far as the client is be concerned, the application should be versioned as a whole. For example, I would like the client to see that an update from version 1.2.3.4 to 1.2.3.5 is available. Behind the scenes the update would

Re: Managing Dynamism

2011-07-14 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 7/14/11 17:00, john.dun...@exceter.com wrote: I would like to hide the update mechanism from the end user. As far as the client is be concerned, the application should be versioned as a whole. For example, I would like the client to see that an update from version 1.2.3.4 to 1.2.3.5 is

Re: Managing Dynamism

2011-07-14 Thread Marcel Offermans
On 14 Jul 2011, at 23:00 , john.dun...@exceter.com wrote: I would like to hide the update mechanism from the end user. As far as the client is be concerned, the application should be versioned as a whole. For example, I would like the client to see that an update from version 1.2.3.4 to