Yes, Sigil is a development/build tool. The link I sent you was in reference to the resolver that Holger mentioned. :)
Cheers, Chris On 22 July 2010 10:58, Sander de Groot <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 07/22/2010 11:06 AM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > >> Sander de Groot wrote: >> >> >>> Does anybody know wether it is possible to create a custom resolver? >>> >>> >> Yes, but hardly advisable unless you have Way Too Much Time™ on your >> hands. >> >> > Yes, I thought so. > > I've searched for these kind of things and found OBR(?) but >>> unfortunately topics aren't too clear on this subject. >>> >>> >> OBR is for now under-specified and only implemented in the most simplistic >> way. There is active work going on in the OSGi working group to make it >> more practical. >> >> >> >>> My context is as follows: I've a cluster of servers (OSGi) and I want to >>> deploy a new application to each of these servers. These new >>> applications however sometimes have dependencies which are not installed >>> on the (OSGi) server in question. In these cases I want the server to >>> handle the missing dependencies by looking in a central repository. If >>> the dependency is found then it should be installed if not: throw the >>> unresolved dependencies exception. >>> >>> >> <shameless commercial plug> >> http://www.paremus.com/products/products_nimble.html >> >> Nimble uses the metadata present in every bundle and resolves >> dependencies, taking special care of optionality and situations that are >> impossible to resolve automatically due to any ambiguities. >> >> > Thanks for the reference, it sounds very interesting. I'm definitely > checking the possibility. > > I use this every day - including hot-updating bundles from my maven repo >> into a running runtime - and haven't manually installed bundle >> dependencies in forever. Disclaimer: I work for the company, but not >> directly on Nimble. >> >> If you think you can reinvent this on your own..good luck. :) >> >> > I'd rather not but I couldn't find something like Paremus provides. > > Another possibility provided by Christopher Brind is Apache Felix Sigil. > http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-osgi-bundle-repository.html > > But Sigil can't run in Felix, right? It seems its only intended for > compile-time (Eclipse/Ivy) > > Holger >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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] > >
