Hi Stuart, Thanks for the pointer, I'll take a look and post my comments back to the list.
Cheers, --Jools 2009/7/6 Stuart McCulloch <[email protected]> > 2009/7/6 Jools <[email protected]> > > > 2009/7/6 Stuart McCulloch <[email protected]> > > > > > 2009/7/6 Karl Pauls <[email protected]> > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Jools<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Doh, yes. Should have read the message..... > > > > > > > > > > As you can tell, I'm a bit of a newbie here myself, but I recall at > > the > > > > osgi > > > > > conference there is an RFC for providing a standard way to laugh > osgi > > > > > application frameworks. > > > > > > > > > > I assume Felix will be wanting something which follows this FRC ? > > > > > > > > It already implements it. > > > > > > > > > > yes, as Karl says Felix already supports the new launching RFC > > > > > > for those interested the code for the current Felix launcher is here: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/felix/trunk/main/src/main/java/org/apache/felix/main/Main.java > > > > > > it's relatively straightforward - but I was suggesting people might > > > want to look at the Felix installers subproject, which is supposed > > > to provide installable images of Felix (these could then make the > > > example bundle URLs absolute based on the install directory) > > > > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/felix/trunk/installers > > > > > > IMHO fixing the installers is better than changing the launcher as > > > the launcher is actually doing the right thing (resolving relative > > > URLs based on the current working directory) so the problem is > > > really the relative URLs in the default Felix configuration > > > > > > unfortunately, the Felix installers subproject has stalled recently > > > because no-one has time to maintain it - so if someone could > > > help out here it would be much appreciated :) > > > > > > > I'd be happy to lend a hand on this. If you have any JIRA issues, or > notes > > would you mind posting them so I can see what I need to do :-) > > > > Hi Jools, the JIRA component is: > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX/component/12310803 > > it's based on the Apache Commons Daemon project - unfortunately I don't > know of any docs which describe the Felix installers, apart from the code! > > ( of course starting this subproject from scratch might also be an option ) > > Cheers, > > > > --Jools > > > > -- > Cheers, Stuart >
