Hello people of Karaf, I'm looking for a way to update Karaf features in my application.
We have an application, of about 140 bundles, spread over about 10 Karaf features, currently on Karaf 3.0.0 RC1. For example, when I release a new bundle version, I'd like to update our servers to use that new version, with a minimum of downtime. What I do now, is: 1) Release the bundle to a Maven repository 2) Update the features.xml file, update the feature version and deploy it to Maven (with a new version number) 3) Uninstall the feature from the servers 4) Remove the old mvn: feature repo from the server instance 5) Add the new mvn: feature repo to the server instance 6) Install the new feature Mind you, this works fine, but it seems more complicated than necessary, and it 'creates more waves' in the application as the whole feature has to be uninstalled first. Is there a way to 'update' a repo (determine the features that have been updated, and for each feature determine the bundles that have changed, and update just those) Is anything like this possible? Or a completely different way to do this? If not, and you think this makes sense, I'm willing to help out if someone can point me in the right direction. regards, Frank
