Just for a point of reference, what some of the folks in the Spring OSGi world have been doing is just putting the "bin" (whatever) dirs on the Bundle-Classpath in the manifest. That works at dev time and at regular runtime that dir does not exist. This is basically a hack equivalent of the dev classpath support we have talked about in the past. Implementing the dev classpath support is not that complex so I would go that route.
Jeff Thomas Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/19/2006 12:09 AM Please respond to felix-dev@incubator.apache.org To felix-dev@incubator.apache.org cc Subject Re: Launch Felix with PDE "Richard S. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/18/2006 02:01:34 PM: > Reading your issue about slow start up due to having to create bundle > JAR files...I think this can be partially avoided by doing install by > reference (i.e., "reference:"); however, as I understand it, this would > require that you structure your project a little differently, such as > having your classes compiled into the root or something (Tom might be > able to explain). Without dev classpath support in the framework you need to place all you source and output folders at the root of your projects. Then you should be able to use a reference: URL to install the project directory as a bundle. This only works because the root of the project will look like a bundle to the framework with the META-INF/MANIFEST.MF and .class files located directly from your project directory. Another limitation is you must only put '.' on your Bundle-ClassPath (or do not define a Bundle-ClassPath since this is the default). HTH Tom > > There was some discussion about getting Felix to support a > development-time class path, but this hasn't been prioritized yet. See: > > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-136 > > -> richard >
