Thank you Stijn and Richard for your comments. I appreciate all the support from everyone and continue to welcome additional pointers as I am still very new to this. All the help I have thus received has been very helpful and much appreciated.
Elliot On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Stijn de Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, I didn't know that. > > However, the main point stands that if you need access to other packages > than the default ones, you can add them using that property. :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard S. Hall [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: vrijdag 23 april 2010 15:02 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OSGi newbie looking for pointers > > On 4/23/10 8:58, Richard S. Hall wrote: >> On 4/23/10 4:38, Stijn de Witt wrote: >>> If you need access to Swing / AWT etc in your bundles, you should >>> Instruct Felix to expose these classes to your bundles by placing >>> Their package names in a list passed to Felix using >>> >>> Constants.FRAMEWORK_SYSTEMPACKAGES_EXTRA >> >> All JRE packages are exported by the system bundle by default, so you >> should just have to import them in your bundles with no other >> necessary actions. > > I should have added: since framework 2.0.0... > > -> richard > >> >> -> richard >> >>> Good luck! >>> >>> -Stijn >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Elliot Huntington [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: donderdag 22 april 2010 17:41 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: OSGi newbie looking for pointers >>> >>> Hi: >>> >>> I just started researching OSGi this past week so I'm very new to it >>> and have never developed an application using it. But I am very >>> interested in learning this technology. In my research I've learned >>> that the different bundles can communicate with each other by >>> publishing/consuming services to/from the service registry. I am >>> confused though how this process works. >>> >>> For example I want to create a bare bones OSGi GUI application. I > want >>> this application to only manage the lifecycle of the gui (open the >>> main frame and handle the shutdown/closing of the program). Then, I >>> would like to create other projects (bundles) that provide all the >>> features for this application via plugins. I'm thinking that the best >>> way to do this would be to create the main GUI application with an >>> instance of embedded Felix. >>> >>> Given this scenario, how would the different pluggins/bundles know > how >>> to modify the main GUI and add functionality to it? Does the GUI >>> itself need to provide hooks into it and if so how does it do that? >>> >>> If any of you have any example code or tutorials you could point me > to >>> I would appreciate it. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Elliot >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Elliot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
