Hi guys, Yesterday I got the question if Pax URLs are supported by FileInstall. Of course there are not as you must have the bundle in the scanned directory. But, In my view with quite a simple change this can be done. And is about making FileInstall support any url, so including pax urls. The idea is that file install to support beside jar, .cfg files also .lnk files. What is a link file? A simple text file that contains the url of the actual bundle to be installed. So, if file install finds such a file, it reads the content and installs the bundle mentioned in the file via url. If .lnk file changes the old content (bundle) is uninstalled and the new one is installed. To me looks like a powerful option. A more "advanced" usage would be that teh .lnk file to be a properties file with properties as "url" and "start" and "startlevel".
I can do this but my question is if it worth doing it as you may not find it useful and there will be a patch that may not be just a simple change as I looked at what has to be changed. -- Alin Dreghiciu Software Developer - Looking for new projects! My profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alindreghiciu My blog: http://adreghiciu.blogspot.com http://www.ops4j.org - New Energy for OSS Communities - Open Participation Software. http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java - Domain Driven Development.
