Hi, The problem turned out to be some non-null ServiceReferences never being used to get the service object, but the unget() always being called in the "finally" block. So, everything seems fine, sorry for the noise...
Thanks Christopher On 16 October 2012 04:13, Richard S. Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/15/12 17:34 , Christopher BROWN wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've encountered a problem and don't see what the correct solution is, if >> there is any. >> >> Some clients are requesting a service implemented as a ServiceFactory. >> The >> getService() method returns a proxy, and the ungetService() method >> disposes >> of the resources used by the proxy (connections, files, etc). The proxy >> is >> therefore associated with the client bundle. This works fine for clients >> that get a reference and an instance in their BundleActivator's start() >> method and release it in the stop() method. >> >> However, some clients don't necessarily retain the reference, they get the >> instance for a specific operation, then release it immediately (in nice >> try...finally blocks). When they release it, the usage count goes to >> zero, >> and ungetService() is called on the ServiceFactory, which duly performs >> cleanup. This is where the trouble starts, because then the client >> requests it again at some later point, and as per the JavaDocs for >> ServiceFactory, it's the original cached proxy instance (the one that's >> already been cleaned up) that gets returned, without the ServiceFactory's >> getService() method being called. >> >> So I can't reactivate it, I can't provide a new proxy, and the client gets >> an obsolete instance. >> > > Either (1) this is a bug in the framework or (2) you are not seeing what > you think you are seeing. If you look in the source code of the framework > in ServiceRegistry.ungetService() you can see that it definitely at least > attempts to flush the cache when the usage count reaches zero. > > If this is not happening, then create an issue in JIRA and attach an > example to demonstrate. Thanks. > > -> richard > > > >> What should I do? I did try doing stuff like calling unregister() on the >> ServiceRegistration passed to ungetService() but that didn't seem to help. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Christopher Brown >> >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@felix.**apache.org<[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
