Hi Richard, Thanks for the information and looking forward to these changes :-)
Regards Felix On 6/27/07, Richard S. Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello everyone. This message is particularly important for anyone who embeds Felix into their own projects (i.e., directly creates an instance of Felix). Two weeks ago I was working on simplifying the Felix shutdown process, since it is somewhat circular and confusing. During that process it dawned on me that there is a better way to handle the entire way we create Felix instances and start/stop the framework. In summary, the idea is to have the Felix class implement the Bundle interface; thus, when you create an instance of Felix what you get in return is the actual system bundle. In this scenario, the Bundle.start()/Bundle.stop() methods will be used to start/stop the framework, respectively. All other methods will work the way that the current system bundle methods work (generally as defined by the spec). Following this approach will not expose any methods that are not already currently exposed by the system bundle. Further, it will actually leverage the standard Bundle API to provide access to what was previously framework-specific API (e.g., typically when embedding Felix, the host application needs access to the system bundle context, now it can get the system bundle context via the standard Bundle.getBundleContext() method). The current approach will further be modified so that the configuration property resolver and the system bundle activator list will be passed into the Felix constructor, instead of the Felix.start() method. I almost have these changes ready to commit (hopefully next week), so this message serves as advanced warning that this will break embedding applications; however, converting to the new API should be very simple. For those using the standard Felix launcher, this will not impact you at all. When I commit these changes I will also update the "launching and embedding" documentation. I will make an announcement when all of this happens. Feedback and input is welcome. -> richard
