Hello all, I was looking for a way to update the bundles in an exploded directory. The documentation for FileInstall:
File Install is a directory based OSGi management agent. It uses a directory in the file system to install and start a bundle when it is first placed there. It updates the bundle when you update the bundle file in the directory and, when the file is deleted, it will stop and uninstall the bundle. http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-file-install.html ======================== What I couldn't understand is: 1- how do we specify the path to the directory to monitor. For example do we give the path of the directory containing jars, or the exploded bundle. Here's the relevant part of my configuration felix/conf/config.properties: felix.auto.start.1=file:bundle/org.osgi.compendium-4.3.1.jar felix.log.level=4 felix.startlevel.bundle=1 org.osgi.service.http.port=8080 obr.repository.url=http://felix.apache.org/obr/releases.xml felix.fileinstall.dir=/home/mansour/workspace/example/target/classes felix.fileinstall.poll=1000 ms felix.fileinstall.log.level=4 felix.fileinstall.bundles.updateWithListeners=true felix.fileinstall.bundles.new.start=true felix.fileinstall.bundles.startTransient=true felix.fileinstall.disableConfigSave=false I tried to point to the directory containing the exploded bundle and the directory containing the resulting jar. So under maven project these are example/target/classes and example/target, but no luck. I tried to rebuild the project after some modification with: example $ mvn clean install org.apache.felix:maven-bundle-plugin:bundle but nothing was picked by felix. I am not sure if I am missing something. I under stand that other tools like bndtools can help, but I don't want to use eclipse for this. in the gogo shell: g! lb START LEVEL 1 ID|State |Level|Name 0|Active | 0|System Bundle (4.2.1) 1|Active | 1|Apache Felix Bundle Repository (1.6.6) 2|Active | 1|Apache Felix Gogo Command (0.12.0) 3|Active | 1|Apache Felix Gogo Runtime (0.10.0) 4|Active | 1|Apache Felix Gogo Shell (0.10.0) 5|Active | 1|osgi.cmpn (4.3.1.201210102024) 13|Active | 1|Apache Felix Configuration Admin Service (1.6.0) 26|Active | 1|example OSGi Bundle (1.0.0.SNAPSHOT) g! I don't know if theres is other bundles I need to install to get this to work. Basically, the work flow I am trying to get to is, modify code, invoke maven build, view the new code in felix, or what otheres may call it hot swap. Now I can invoke: g! update 26 de-activated the bundle class com.example.Activator DEBUG: WIRE: [26.1] osgi.wiring.package; (&(osgi.wiring.package=org.osgi.framework)(version>=1.6.0)(!(version>=2.0.0))) -> [0] activated the bundle class com.example.Activator To get the updated version, but I need a way to avoid doing this. Is this possible without using any additional ide plugins ? Is there anything I am missing, or misunderstood ? Thank you.
