Todd,
I was wondering if it is possible to embed Felix inside of JBoss, as perhaps a SAR or some other service. When the service is started, I would like to simply create an instance of Felix to expose pluggable components to our application. I am thinking that it may be as simple as:Felix m_felix =3D nex Felix(); m_felix.start(.....)
I am not a big EJB guy, but what you are asking is definitely possible and people have done such things.
Will this enable access to the bundles exposed by Felix within our other resources, i.e. EJB's or other services?
I am not sure I understand this question. Do you want the bundles on the inside to access stuff on the outside or vice versa? Both should be possible to some degree or the other.
I have started a document on how to launch/embed Felix at (currently the Apache wiki is down):
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FELIX/Launching+and+Embedding+Felix
This document is not complete at this point, unfortunately, but I will try to work on it some more when time permits. It will eventually give you some idea how you can embed Felix into a host application. Until the document is done you can send me/the mailing list any questions you have.
-> richard
