Yes, but in these cases all components implementing the service would be active though only one is used.
Regards Carsten BJ Hargrave wrote > Or SortedSet.first() :-) > > This is assuming you use a Collections.reverseOrder() comparator. > Otherwise the first element is the lowest ranking. > -- > > *BJ Hargrave* > Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM > OSGi Fellow and CTO of the _OSGi Alliance_ <http://www.osgi.org/>_ > [email protected]_ <mailto:[email protected]> > > office: +1 386 848 1781 > mobile: +1 386 848 3788 > > > > > > > > From: Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> > To: OSGi Developer Mail List <[email protected]> > Date: 2011/01/14 21:18 > Subject: Re: [osgi-dev] [DS] Improve reference support ? > Sent by: [email protected] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Hi, > > Albeit a bit clumsy it is also possible using an internal Sorted > collection. The reference is converted to a multiple one and the > ServiceReferences are kept in, say, a SortedSet such that the service > with the highest ranking is always provided by > sortedSet.iterator().next(). > > Regards > Felix > > > Am Freitag, den 14.01.2011, 11:34 +0100 schrieb Peter Kriens: >> Isn't this easily handed by a little helper class? >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Peter Kriens >> >> On 14 jan 2011, at 11:27, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > we're using declarative services a lot - it's usually sufficient and >> > works pretty well :) >> > >> > The only drawback we're facing - and I've heard this from others as well >> > - is the lack of proper support for references and the service ranking >> > property: once a reference is bound it is not updated if a new component >> > providing the same service but with a higher service ranking arrives. >> > So, it gets more unpredictable and depends on the startup order of >> > services to what service such a reference is bound. >> > In these cases, you can't use DS. >> > >> > It would be great, to have a way to exactly define a reference that is >> > always bound to the service with the highest ranking. To be compatible >> > this has to be something new as we shouldn't change the current >> > behaviour. So maybe adding a new optional property to the reference tag >> > in the XML specifying if a rebound should happen due to service ranking >> > or something along these lines. >> > >> > WDYT? >> > >> > Regards >> > Carsten >> > -- >> > Carsten Ziegeler >> > [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ >> > OSGi Developer Mail List >> > [email protected] >> > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSGi Developer Mail List >> [email protected] >> https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > [email protected] > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSGi Developer Mail List > [email protected] > https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev -- Carsten Ziegeler [email protected] _______________________________________________ OSGi Developer Mail List [email protected] https://mail.osgi.org/mailman/listinfo/osgi-dev
