Hi, I have been playing around with OSGi and Felix a bit.
One interesting thing I have noticed is that when a Bundle is installed the 'location' parameter (usually a URL) is used to identify it in the framework. I was wondering if anyone knew why this is used and not the combination of the Bundle's symbolic name + version? Wouldn't that make more sense as that combination is indeed 'unique'? Also, as things stand when a new Bundle is installed using the same 'location' as an existing one it returns the existing installed Bundle with that location, even though the actual Bundles may be completely different! However, I do realise that in practice it would be very unusual for two different Bundles to have the same location but theoretically this is possible. Ideally I would have thought it would read the new Bundle's symbolic name + version and check to see if it is already installed. If not it would then install it using the provided location and use the combination of symbolic name + version as a unique key to identify the Bundle. I realise this is part of the OSGi spec but just wondered if anyone knew why it has been done this way? Hope all that makes sense! Chris
