Hello, I'm using felix for a project of mine that uses a lot of services/interfaces for communication between bundles. For example, one bundle contains a manager to manage X resources. Each X resource contains multiple Y resources and every Y resource has some Z resources. Ofcourse, these resources are accessible as services.
It is tempting to let this bundle register an XManager service, who's interface just returns X service interfaces (my own defined type). The good thing about this is that other modules can directly access the X resources and their corresponding Y and Z resources. However, I have the impression that you have to use the mechanism provided by ServiceReference and context.getService(). This would mean that I have to keep track of all X service-instances in each of my client bundles, in order to unget them when no longer needed. Moreover, I would need to do the same with the Y and Z that can be accessed through each X service. I would need a big number of getService() calls all over my code and it wouldn't look nice. So, is it neccesary to use the getService/ungetService calls EVERYTIME you want to access services from other bundles, or can I just pass the interfaces around if I want? What are the implications of doing the latter? Thanks alot! P.S: The bundles I'm programming are not part of a program which is completely used offline. So the bundles will be available at all times during the program's lifetime. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Passing-services-to-other-bundles-tp31719679p31719679.html Sent from the Apache Felix - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
