Thanks. I'm aware of the existence of DeploymentAdmin but don't know much about it. Will it update an existing bundle from a repository?
I've looked a bit at Apache Ace. But it seems to depend on being aware of the 'targets' that it updates. This is not possible for me. I need to update bundles in a 'pull' fashion. Tim On 08/05/2014 06:44 AM, Jan Willem Janssen wrote: > On 04/08/14 17:34, Tim McIver wrote: > > I've got an application that is using Felix in an embedded fashion > > and we're using OSGi to implement a plugin architecture. One of my > > main goals is to automatically update any installed plugins from an > > external OBR. Before I spend any more time trying to write custom > > code to do this, I'd like to know if there is an existing feature > > in OSGi or Felix that does this already? I've begun writing code > > that gets the symbolic name of any installed plugin, then uses this > > to get all Resources with a given symbolic name from the external > > OBR. Next, I would see if any of these Resources are a more recent > > version of what's installed. Finally, I need the framework to use > > these newer bundles instead of the old ones. I feel like this is a > > common use case but it's unclear to me if this is already > > implemented in OSGi, Felix or some other framework. > > You probably want to take a look at the Deployment Admin specification > (also present as Felix subproject), which allows you to define > "deployment packages" containing new bundles and/or other resources to > install/update. > > What Deployment Admin does not provide, is an easy way of determining > what should go into a deployment package. If your plugins are fully > self-contained, this might be as easy as pie, but if your plugins > consist of multiple bundles and/or resources this might become rather > difficult. In these cases, it might be worthwhile to look into a > project like Apache ACE for a more complete solution. > > HtH, > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
