Re: Noob questions about bundle installation.

2017-03-08 Thread John Logan
Responding to my own email to conserve anyone else's effort. I fired off my last response before doing a cursory web search :/ It looks like, in the old old days, one way to effect a node type change is to stop Sling, delete the custom_nodetypes.xml file, and restart, causing the node types to be

Re: Noob questions about bundle installation.

2017-03-08 Thread John Logan
Thank you for the response, Stefan! I was surprised about the behavior for 1. below and I'm positive that I have seen the new code activate immediately before also. I'll look into this further. I'm not surprised what you describe about #2. When you say "remove this definition manually", what

RE: Noob questions about bundle installation.

2017-03-08 Thread Stefan Seifert
>1.) Are there cases where I would need to shut down and restart Sling in >order for an updated version of the bundle to be functional. What I'm >seeing today is that I make a few code changes, do a "mvn clean install >sling:install", observe that the bundle gets installed, but when I make use

Usage of Felix FileInstall or Sling File Install Provider?

2017-03-08 Thread olimination
Hi, there is the "Felix FileInstall" bundle which allows installation of bundles in a scanned directory. Sling's OSGi Installer has also a "FileInstall Provider" which enables similar functionality I assume. Does it make sense to use the Felix FileInstall way or should we use the Sling OSGi