This sounds pretty interesting. I'll take a stab at this and be sure to update the JIRA [1].
1 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2786 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-2786> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Marcel Offermans < marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2011, at 21:05 , Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > > > I'm looking at the HTTP Service and was wondering if anyone can tell if > or > > how I can let the implementation pick a free port for a service, instead > > of having to choose one myself? The reachable address would be > > communicated to the outside world by different means, but I don't want to > > specify the port up front. From reading the docs it doesn't seem to be > > possible. > > Would have been nice for ad-hoc services and such. > > I'm pretty sure that's currently not possible. > > You could try configuring it (through Configuration Admin) with port N, > then register some servlet and see if you can actually reach that servlet > (repeating those steps until you can) but that's not the most elegant > solution. > > The current configuration you can "see" by looking at the actual service > properties, which are propagated from the configuration. > > I think it would be nice to have a setting "port=random" or > "port="pick-from-range(8000,9000)" or something similar, so why not supply a > patch! > > Greetings, Marcel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@felix.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@felix.apache.org > >
