Hi, Justin Edelson wrote > As I mentioned last week, I had some concerns about using FileInstall > for ConfigAdmin support and, more than concerns about FileInstall in > particular, I didn't like the whole approach within Launchpad of > "copying some files out of the JAR/WAR" and didn't want to see us > continue this pattern. yepp, though I don't think that copying is a huge problem, it would be nicer to go without copying.
> I worked out a solution to this today and I'm pretty happy with it. > > In short... Launchpad exposes a service which allows bundles/services > within the framework to access the contents of the launchpad archive (or > project, in the case of the maven-launchpad-plugin) as a virtual file > system. > > It is then trivial to create a component which uses this service to > access configuration files and install them via osgi.installer. Yes, I was thinking about something like this as well - if possible, i would like to have a solution which does not require new interfaces or services in launchpad; but so far I couldn't come up with something useful (url handlers or something similar comes to my mind) > > Note that in order for this to work properly [3], I had to introduce > osgi.installer into the main pom. I'd like to get rid of the separate > reactor for installer entirely, but there are still some integration > test failures in osgi/it and it looks like Carsten is still working on > this module. In any case, going down this path means that osgi.installer > will need to be part of Sling 6 (if we want ConfigAdmin to be part of > Sling 6, of course). Yes, I'm currently rewriting the whole integration tests as they rely on internals of the implementation which makes changing the implementation really hard. If Sling 6 is near - and I really hope it is - I don't see osgi install be ready for this - so we have to go without osgi install. Though I really would love to have config support in launchpad it is not a must and should not block Sling 6. If we can't get it for Sling 6 we will have it for Sling 7. Carsten -- Carsten Ziegeler cziege...@apache.org
