Thanks everyone. I've been reading through the javadoc. Thanks also for reminding me to RTFM:) Not all of it is clear but it certainly helps a great deal.
D On 02/02/2017 10:31 PM, Tim Ward wrote: Yes - the Reference annotation has a number of useful properties that you can set to control its behaviour. Tim Sent from my iPhone On 2 Feb 2017, at 22:45, Dario Amiri <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The javadoc is unclear about where to use it. Is this a setting on the Reference annotation itself? On 02/02/2017 09:46 AM, Timothy Ward wrote: I did not understand your comment on "Declarative Services with a static policy". I'm ignorant of this concept. Is there some documentation I can look at to better understand what that means? The JavaDoc is actually pretty good! https://osgi.org/javadoc/r6/cmpn/org/osgi/service/component/annotations/ReferencePolicy.html#STATIC Finally, I am using the maven-bundle-plugin with the "_dsannotations" tag to process the declarative services annotations. Is there a better way? There are different ways, but not necessarily better. The bnd-maven-plugin is another choice for generating your OSGi metadata, and it automatically picks up the annotations. It’s doing the same thing under the covers (even using the same library), just with some slightly better default configuration and tooling support. I must admit to being biased though, as I actually write some of the plugins in that project. Regards, Tim On 2 Feb 2017, at 16:30, Dario Amiri <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thank you Timothy. It was the @Reference on the unbind that was creating the problem. I don't know why I didn't catch that especially since I have another @Reference right next to that one where I did not make the same mistake. I guess there's no substitute for a second pair of eyes - makes me wish I could go back to pair programming. I did not understand your comment on "Declarative Services with a static policy". I'm ignorant of this concept. Is there some documentation I can look at to better understand what that means? Finally, I am using the maven-bundle-plugin with the "_dsannotations" tag to process the declarative services annotations. Is there a better way? Thanks again, D On 02/02/2017 08:10 AM, Timothy Ward wrote: The next thing to check is, are you using a tool which processes the Declarative Services annotations when building the bundle? Does the bundle have a Service-Component header and a matching XML file? I’m guessing that you probably do as you refer to the reference not being set, but it’s still worth checking!
